Showing posts with label Benguela. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benguela. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Long Arctic Indian Summer

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For the moment, I want my readers to totally put all you have been brought to believe about the human impact on global warming completely ou...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Sean Barry on the Antiquity of Terra Preta.

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Sean Barry gives us this post on the antiquity of Terra preta in Brazil and its living history from the terra preta group. The people who li...
Friday, September 7, 2007

Liberating human labor

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In yesterday's post I presented a world in which our newly discovered mastery of the art of carbon sequestration allows us to also prog...
Thursday, September 6, 2007

New Age Global Agriculture

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When I started this blog, I had one very important arrow in my quiver. That was the knowledge that it was becoming feasible to produce a sma...
Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Global Corn Culture

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I have become progressively more comfortable with the production of biochar using some form of corn stack. As each new issue is addressed, ...
Friday, August 31, 2007

Methane and pottery

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In the end concerns over methane production are irrelevant. We have doubled production in the last century and it is all gone. The reason ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Methane fears

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We have had a lot of enthusiasm for methane lately for its potential as a so called greenhouse gas. http://www.physicalgeography.n...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Machinery and Biochar

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I posted a draft of this on the Terra Preta and Black Earth news groups. I cannot help but think that the methods used to produce the black ...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Mel Landers and Jackie Foo on Field testing Corn Stover Stacks

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The following posts from the Black Earth Soils newsgroup (Bionet) are well worth reading since we are addressing the possibility of restarti...
Friday, August 17, 2007

Tom Miles comments on Biochar production costs

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This is from the Terra preta site. Agreed. Production and use of the charcoal on the farm is not trivial. It's at a different scale tha...

Getting the job done - Biochar on the modern farm

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Getting the job done on the modern farm is a challenge that needs to be confronted on a capital sensitive basis. A good analysis of the pro...
Monday, August 13, 2007

Oceanic Heat Transfer

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We know that the Ice age ended over 10,000 years ago and we know that it took around three thousand years for the ice to melt to current lev...
Monday, August 6, 2007

Heat Distribution and Terra Preta soils

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As could be expected, we are now seeing a range of tests been done in the creation of terra preta. this is generating discussion on the terr...
Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Uniqueness of corn culture

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Reading through the posts on the Terra Preta site reinforces one important reality. That is that the knowledge needed to work with plant wa...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Pollutants from Carbonization

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There has been some discussion on the obvious generation of pollutants when plant material is carbonized. As I pointed out, we can sharply ...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Human Labor

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I often forget that few understand how dominant to the economic model underlying agriculture is the element of human labor. Every shift in ...
Friday, July 6, 2007

Those amazonian soils

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Reviewing again some of the material on Terra Preta soils, now that I have a clear understanding of the method used, is immediately rewardin...

Discussion on Terra Preta (pollution impact)

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Robert: I hope we can agree that this is a method of producing charcoal that is more apt to be harmful that helpful for climate chan...
Thursday, July 5, 2007

Mike Kiely commentary on soils

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This post is responding to my post in April. Michael Kiely said... Good to s...
Wednesday, July 4, 2007

carbonizing corn in the field

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I have already commented earlier in how I thought that the Indians in the Amazon likely created windrows that they then lightly buried and s...
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