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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>From Paul's message:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>> </span>Other issues: What about all those other tars and oils and vapors that are combustible but for which there is not sufficient Oxygen inside <span style='color:windowtext'>> </span>the biomass molecules? Are you expecting this to drain? Or to remain inside the "char" that would be loaded with such "gunk"? That <span style='color:windowtext'>> </span>would be interesting char for burning, but not as biochar for soils and plants.<br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Actually, a lot of plants like the extra tars and vapors to be in the char. Some of the most oily chars I've gotten a chance to test, have been the ones that plants like. So it's good to widen the pool of chars that we are looking at to include some of the other processes that use the energy from the charmaking process to do useful things. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Erin Rasmussen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>erin@trmiles.com <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>