Official Biochar Tutorial Video
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thanks for the vid, this is just the sort of thing for me there is better ways of making char but for someone like me with a small area and love of fires its just the job, i have 3 big fires every winter so i will have one for cooking and 2 for the earth, for those who say this is a waist look for traditional british charcoal burning it makes these small barrels look like a joke, just collect the gas to heat up your smaller barrels. its hard work but the reward is far grater
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@propositionjohnston Don't have to use tree wood. You can use something that grows fast and can be used as bio-char like Cannabis Stalks, rotten dry vegetation, chicken manure that is not desired as fertilizer, yet when it is turned into biochar it is very desirable.
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nice chizzled hole bro, that's awesome you did it all by yourself!
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Can you burn something else besides wood like carrot tops or orange peels? Seriously.
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hey it's official. he invented burning wood to make char.
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No no. The way to produce biochar with the smallest carbon cost is to insert it in your anus and leave it overnight. In the morning, it will be dark and very carboniferous. The fungi will thrive on it, and you can fertilize 230 acres with just 1/2 pound of material.
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@ecosutra do you have any more information on what you are saying here?
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Look over to the right and watch the Making Biochar with Peter Hirst to see just how big of a moron this guy is...
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Wrong bad C02 demonstration. The way to do bio char correctly is letting the sun bake on carbon over time on an angle of repose on swale. Add fungal compost tea and you get a great bio char that one tablespoon can fertilize 10 acres.
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He's doing it wrong. If you want to make carbon neutral charcoal you could perhaps cook the barrel on a flame of hydrogen gas.
Wow. I'm speechless. How can you call this inefficient method of making charcoal and "official" tutorial? No insulation and reuse / burning of biogas produced to improve burning efficiency. And it certainly looks like you used treated / commercial lumber for this.
iskysan 2 years ago 5
how utterly ignorant. that "thick black smoke coming out of the barrel is FUEL you idiot. That FUEL can make heat you need to make that "thick black smoke" thus making fuel from the biomass and making bio char without burning a house to fry an egg .... do a bit of reading on this you are literally killing the planet trying to save it.
definca 2 years ago 2