Showing posts with label charcoal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charcoal. Show all posts
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Subsistence Solar Heater

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This is not particularly new technology but it is perhaps getting the marketing boost it needs. I also think that we can count on modern co...
Monday, March 23, 2009

Bronze

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This is an excellent history of the bronze industry of the Bronze Age in Eurasia. Not unexpectedly, it fails to integrate the Bronze Age of...
Monday, December 22, 2008

Post 1492 Reforestration

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Without a doubt, an explanation for the Little Ice Age is a priority item on my personal to do list. Here we are introduced to a factor that...
Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Early Terra Preta Production

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As my long time blog readers know, terra preta is a man made soil located in the Amazon by the Indians up to the time of the conquest for at...
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Monday, September 24, 2007

Developing biochar protocols

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In reviewing my posts on terra preta and the comments since generated by the expanded participation around the terra preta website in partic...
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, ...
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...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Terraforming - 1 - agricultural lands

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I began this blog to open discussion on the need to progressively terraform the earth. And core to that proposition is the modification of ...
Monday, July 16, 2007

pyrolysis

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I have read a lot of comment of the role of pyrolysis and how it produces gases and liquids while leaving char behind. Obviously the highe...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

Nutrient Accumulation

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Now that we understand the corn carbon protocol and how it is able to deliver powdered charcoal into the soil to form Terra Preta soils, we ...