[Stoves] Off-topic: Mayor Pete invokes "carbon negative farm"

[Energies Naturals C.B.]

Yes, please inform me



On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 19:48:09 +0530
Russell deLucia <delucia at s3idf.org> wrote:

> Nikhil
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> In haste as at end of 12+ hour day.
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> Have I informed u about allteh work my friend Charl Lawes doing on biochar?
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> Answer yes or no I will try to follow up.
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> Regsrds
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> Russ
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> *From:* Nikhil Desai [mailto:pienergy2008 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, November 22, 2019 6:36 PM
> *To:* Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
> *Cc:* Ron Larson <rongretlarson at comcast.net>; Paul Anderson <
> psanders at ilstu.edu>; Tom Miles <tmiles at trmiles.com>
> *Subject:* Off-topic: Mayor Pete invokes "carbon negative farm"
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> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2019/11/21/the-energy-202-pete-buttigieg-polling-high-in-iowa-targets-farmers-with-climate-message/5dd58a8c602ff1184c31670a/
> This Washington Post story doesn't mention if this US presidential
> candidate has biochar in mind, but he might. Will need to discover more
> from this campaign. Or biochar activists could alert him that corn ethanol
> probably isn't that big in "carbon negative" terms. (I haven't checked
> lately.)
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> "I believe that the quest for the carbon-negative farm could be as big a
> symbol of dealing with climate change as the electric car in this country,"
> Buttigieg said during the debate." Sensible words, shifting the focus away
> from power sector. Indiana is only behind Texas (lignite and some sub-bit)
> in coal consumption. Open grass and crop burning, and other land-based GHG
> emissions, are not properly accounted for in IPCC inventorying and even
> less in the FCCC "agreements:". What land and sea biota do to the climate
> and how they are in turn affected by climate change are, to me, still wild
> guesses. See this interesting article on the chemistry of micro-ecosystems
> of the Amazon and think at the global scale -
> https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/drone-based-monitoring-system-reveals-important-information-on-the-health-of-the-amazon/
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