An alternative to Ethanol from Corn "Clean energy +BIOCHAR"

What is the music in the soundtrack?

I'm making charcoal here at home in an urban setting, using smoke free methods - secondary combustion. I have both test and control beds but no definitive results yet. Great video. Thanks.

Would it not be more realistic to burn ethanol in a laboratory to calculate the carbon footprint? I think you missed a few steps, corn alone is not ethanol, but corn is an ingredient used to make ethanol.

in the title, the poster stated that this is an ALTERNATIVE to ethanol, not ethanol production.

I don't understand how you get char when you feed the stove air. Feeding it air, wouldn't you have complete combustion and make ash? I make charcoal out of wood but add no air. Also how about maybe eating corn kernels and using the dried corn stalks. I have a local riverbed that is choked with bamboo. I will see if I can cut and dry a bunch soon.

On a side note here and something to look into:

The first time a saw a industrial carbon manufacturing area was in DEATH VALLEY.

Apparently the silver miners in the area needed a pure form of carbon to "extract " the silver , so they went up in the mountains and "gassified" the wood in the area. In about 20 foot tall "Upside down acorn" shaped buildings.

They still stand to this day.

I'm cooking in my kitchen.
So, is there a place I can just BUY
agrichar/biochar, or do I have to make
my own? There's a new stove from, I think,
GTZ called a 'rocket stove'. Will that
work, too? They're trying to sell those
in Bangladesh to stop all the soot & CO.

does this kind of stove need a fan like a gassifier stove?

Where does a person find a portable stove like the one shown in your video? I'd like to make my own biochar in a sustainable way, before some giant, shameless company exploits the name and the environmental image, and starts selling low-quality, industrial, lifeless bags of super-hot fired charcoal as "biochar" in Wal-Mart. My understanding is that biochar requires that temperatures be kept relatively low so as not to burn off volatile oils and partially pyrolyzed organic matter.

Hi Nipwit7,

If your in the States you can buy one of Tom Reeds "Woodgas Camp Stoves" to make a little biochar while producing clean cooking gas. If you want to make more biochar for your garden you might like to use some of the ideas posted on dub dub dub biochar . org
Regarding biochar temp having to be low this is not true, microbial response has a lot more to do with pore structure then oils!
Good luck with your trials!

just lovely