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<DIV>In a message dated 11/18/2010 5:22:37 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
clamshell@iinet.net.au writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>DD: Dan Dimiduk responds.</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>http://permaculture.org.au/2010/11/18/beware-the-biochar-initiative/<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>DD Burying Biochar is like any other soil management practice, it needs to
be balanced. Soil is a living organism. Feeding it an unbalanced diet can
wreck it, feeding it a balanced diet can enhance it. Enhanced soil holds carbon,
wrecked soil releases it. </DIV>
<DIV> Best use of efficiently produced charcoal is to
combust it efficiently to offset and reduce fossil fuel usage. This reduces CO2
emissions and depletion of carbon reserves. Nothing wrong with using charcoal as
a tool for better growing, if that tool is properly used. Charcoal is a great
end product for biomass wastes so why destroy good biomass to make it?
Only replensihed and managed supplies of cultivated biomass should be used for
charcoal or energy production. Use the waste biomass first. No shortage of it.
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