<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Michael and.6 Ccs: - and adding “stoves' - as Kevin started a cookstove - related thread; and adding Paul<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. I apologize for missing your message below until just now.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. Paul Anderson has also addressed the “excited” sentence below. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. I know that you are doing excellent biochar field work using char produced via corn cobs charred in TLUD type fashion in 200 liter drums. This qualifies as biochar for me. Your char/biiochar work is great.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Can you further clarify this last “excited’ sentence? That is - I am “excited" about <b class=""><u class="">both </u></b>your char/biochar and Kevin’s char/biochar. I like Kevin’s because it uses (cooking) the energy that most 200 liter drum’s can’t. And for the multiple reasons I gave earlier today on why 3-stone fires remain so successful (zero cost, non-batch, less fuel preparation, etc.. Kevin could be making a major change in the way three-stone fires will be used - and his idea (and self-funding) is only a few weeks old. To the climate benefit of us all.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4. So to repeat. - I am not understanding your last sentence - seeming to make a distinction where I see little..</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ron</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 28, 2021, at 2:39 AM, <a href="mailto:d.michael.shafer@gmail.com" class="">d.michael.shafer@gmail.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Ron,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Would be very interested in results. My understanding is that the problem with charcoal is that it never gets hot enough (a) to burn out all of the tars and other aromatics and (b) to form the carbons into the necessary sheets of ring structures. If this is not true, why are we so excited about biochar when the alternative of using charcoal is so close at hand?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">M <br clear="all" class=""><div class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div style="color:WISESTAMP_SIG_46ae04b67fc776cb2e9cbf5ea0c1a104" class=""><div class=""><table style="width:600px;direction:ltr;border-radius:0" width="600" class="main_html">
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</tbody></table><img src="https://tracy.srv.wisestamp.com/px/6415323153563648.png?embedded_method=extension" alt="" class=""></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 8:18 AM Ronal Larson <<a href="mailto:rongretlarson@comcast.net" class="">rongretlarson@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Michael, cc Kevin<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>It should be fairly easy to test with seed sprouting at a kitchen window.</div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>RWL; I have excised five more messages below going back to March 11 - mostly between Kevin and myself - all related to what I have begun calling. BC-HERS, but not related to Michaels above short message</div><div><br class=""></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><snip></div></div></body></html>