Biochar - agrichar - Terra Preta

This whole bio char thing is stupid. Terra preta is an acient midden, waste pit that turned into compost, which is were all of the fertility is derived from. This is just an attempt to sell charcoal to gardeners to use in soil my oppinion. Any 'real' gardener knows how to make good soil just like they did with simple compost and mulch.

Some people have commented that plants in Biochar made from chicken manure will grow better for the reason that chicken manure is a fertilizer. In fact, fertilizers are a range of materials that contain certain nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium based chemicals. In pyrolysis most of these chemicals are released as part of the Syn-gas product. The plants in the example grew better for the simple fact that Biochar is porous and can hold water and nutrients longer than regular soil.

It's hard to believe this "quick-fix" carbon belief system
Just fuel up with more fossil energy and make more "Terra Preta"!

Informative and very inspiring: a source of real hope. Colin

Koporate Amerika and her foreign Nazi allies will kill this dead. It will be "proven wrong", "unessential", "overly rated" etc. etc. We are led by the filthiest and most self aggrandizing profiteers ever.

Yes the earth is getting warmer, it is called.... Sunshine... look at the real data and one will see that the "global warming" is just a scam. Bio char is a great thing it works. I am glad they are showing syngas, it is the awesome way to go.

Or you could read real science and stop listening to Rush and "christian science" (oxymoron) radio.
The Earth should be COOLING now due to a wobble in the orbit around the sun which means we are farther than usual from the sun.
Science is much more complex than simple assumptions made by people with access to microphones and only an interest in getting paid to say whatever people will listen to. That is usually whatever is inflammatory.

James Hansen figures you could suck out 8 ppm of CO2 per 50 years using biochar.

That's not nearly good enough by itself. We need to get rid of coal power fast and that means nuclear.

Agrichar seems much more useful for soil fertility and production of industrial chemicals( don't waste the precious syngas making fuel for internal combustion engines; make ammonia for fertilizer and explosives, make raw materials for glue, plastics, pesticides, medicines...)

Discard Nuclear Energy! it is not an option (other than study uses and medical uses). One disaster with a nuclear-plant and you have a huge region uninhabitable for centuries to come! Next to that risc, there's the dangerous waste it produces. Just google-news some of the stories from nuclear plants and their issues in France and Germany etc.

Coal power in the US kills several Chernobyls worth of people per year from particulate polution alone, absent any accident.

Coal will, absent any accident, cause large areas of the Earth to become uninhabitable for centuries.

As for having watermelons and coal-shills lie at me, no thank you. If a nuclear plant releases an amount of tritium that exposes nearby inhabitants to the same amount of radiation as eating one banana it's a "major radiation leak".