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Updates on this ubiquitous carbon sink.

Here's the current news and links on Terra Preta (TP)soils and closed-loop pyrolysis of Biomass, this integrated virtuous cycle could sequester 100s of Bil ...

Eden had some marginal gas strikes, But they are spuding the Noah Oil prospect in the spring............at Last.

I have not seen any thing about coal being a feedstock for bio-char.
The remaining lignin structure of Low temperature woody charcoal (not grass or high cellulose) has an
interior layer of bio-oil c ...

I am a landscape design/builder in the Shenandoah Valley. I found the Terra Preta work a few months ago and have been posting it around to science forums, local academics, soil science people, local f ...

I spoke with the author of a Terra Preta (TP) story in Solar Today, Ron Larson ,
http://www.solartoday.org/2006/nov_d...CornerND06.pdf
he said he spoke with a major National Geographic editor, who ...

WOW.............This is the first I've seen of a pyrolysis process like Dr. Danny Day's on the market:

http://www.bestenergies.com/companies/bestpyrolysis.html

Hi All:

Ludi:

1 "I don't believe in "this is the only solution" solutions,"
I agree.... but of all the solutions I've seen, short of a silver bullet like Fusion or Nano-tech Solar/Thermo-ele ...

Dr. Bussard of EMC2 is promoting Electrostatic confinement , a type of Farnsworth Fusor not Low Energy Nuke Reactions (LENR )

Extraordinary Evidence - "Cold Fusion"

The field of low energy nuclear reactions, historically known as cold fusion, has never had simple physical evidence of the claimed nuclear processes to physi ...

The integrated energy strategy offered by Terra Preta Soil technology may
provide the only path to sustain our agricultural and fossil fueled power
structure without climate degradation, other than ...

A variation of this process would also work as well for syn-fuels, and still sequester CO2 while building soils at large scales:

http://www.eprida.com/hydro/

Erich J. Knight

Nano emulsion control , All the other industral applications beyond oil make my head spin.

Nanoforum - News - World first nanotechnology to revolutionise oil production - Energy

http://www.nano ...

I have just started researching these efforts, I have used Mycorisal fungus inoculations in my Landscape business for 15 years with unquestionable results in side by side trails. The treated plants ...

Did you even read my Terra Preta soil Post????????

Terra Preta soil is not something you could do on an industrial level and scale. Go from slash and burn of the rainforest to slash and char? ...

biofuels and sustainability are contradictions. All industrial agriculture, whether for food, fiber, or fuel is unsustainable by definition because it deplete the soil and demands extracted chemical i ...