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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Nikhil</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">In haste as at end of 12+ hour day.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Have I informed u about allteh work my friend Charl Lawes doing on biochar?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Answer yes or no I will try to follow up.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Regsrds</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Russ</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Nikhil Desai [mailto:<a href="mailto:pienergy2008@gmail.com">pienergy2008@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 22, 2019 6:36 PM<br><b>To:</b> Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <<a href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org">stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Ron Larson <<a href="mailto:rongretlarson@comcast.net">rongretlarson@comcast.net</a>>; Paul Anderson <<a href="mailto:psanders@ilstu.edu">psanders@ilstu.edu</a>>; Tom Miles <<a href="mailto:tmiles@trmiles.com">tmiles@trmiles.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Off-topic: Mayor Pete invokes "carbon negative farm"</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#1d2129"><a href="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/">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/</a> 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.) </span></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#1d2129">"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 - <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/drone-based-monitoring-system-reveals-important-information-on-the-health-of-the-amazon/">https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/drone-based-monitoring-system-reveals-important-information-on-the-health-of-the-amazon/</a> N</span></p></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Nikhil Desai</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">(US +1) 202 568 5831<br><i>Skype: nikhildesai888</i></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>