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gardenlen wrote:
like wheeling out the good old slash and burn technology under a
different light?
But this isn't slash and burn, it's slash and char.
they never mention the pollution caused in making the stuff once put
into the atmosphee can't be taken back (smoke and gasses not
contained), nor the transporation of it from point of making to where
it is to be used and also the transporting etc.,. of trees to the burn
site, also the preassure put on forests this becomes another reason to
deal in deforestation.
There is the Carbon Cycle, and CO2 that goes into the atmosphere, is
eventually sequestered by chlorophyl and turned to sugar, which may be
twisted again into cellulose, which can be chard and sequestered, as I
said, for up to 50,000 years, long after a typical tree has grown,
fallen, and rotted away to its constituent nutrients.
We do need forests back as part of the mix in sequestering CO2.
In the making of charcoal there is little smoke. Think a luau pit with a
big fire (and a pig), then covered over with dirt to continue without
oxygen, and you have charcoal (and a cooked pig).
icing does make the cake hey?
the picture on this site speaks a thousand words:
http://www.biochar.org/joomla/
also see my page for pic's of homemade incinerators all in the name of
bio-char (quiet a back yard industry burgeoning to make and supply
like to other gardeners):
Typically, here in California, the indigenous would start a big fire in
a cave, and then seal the cave up, to keep the oxygen out (and,
unintentionally, to keep the smoke in).
http://www.lensgarden.com.au/permaculture_essay.htm
scroll down.
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:11:26 -0400, Bill who putters
wrote:
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Matthew 25:13 KJV
"Watch therefore, for ye know neither
the day nor the hour wherein the Son
of man cometh"
Mark 13:33 "Take ye heed, watch and pray:
for ye know not when the time is".
len
With peace and brightest of blessings,
"Be Content With What You Have And
May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In
A World That You May Not Understand."
http://www.lensgarden.com.au/
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/m...515308172.html