agrichar

Link to Scientific American on Biochar (they call it agrichar)

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Also known as agrichar or biochar: Make charcoal of otherwise quickly decaying biomass and bury in the fields (or, rather, in the composts first).

RealClimate 2009

Also known as agrichar or biochar: Make charcoal of otherwise quickly decaying biomass and bury in the fields (or, rather, in the composts first).

RealClimate 2009

Also known as agrichar or biochar: Make charcoal of otherwise quickly decaying biomass and bury in the fields (or, rather, in the composts first).

RealClimate 2009

Also known as agrichar or biochar: Make charcoal of otherwise quickly decaying biomass and bury in the fields (or, rather, in the composts first).

RealClimate 2009

Also known as agrichar or biochar: Make charcoal of otherwise quickly decaying biomass and bury in the fields (or, rather, in the composts first).

RealClimate 2009

If I did, I'd drop $200 million on Bussard (I'm sure he'd enjoy that); $200 million on kickstarting a vertical farming industry, the same on ocean iron-fertilization studies, another chunk on developing an agrichar infrastructure, and the rest on various projects that can't get funding because they have a low probability of success, but massive payoff if they do work.

SF Tidbits for 9/13/07 2007

A backgrounder on biochar/agrichar from Australia (imagine turning much of Australia green?) (See also "The Promise of Agrichar" from Agrisonic.)

A. Siegel: Is This the Most Important Meeting? 2009

Terra preta or agrichar, as it is also sometimes called is not a new concept, but it is probably unfamiliar to most readers.

Terra Preta for Carbon Reduction 2007

But producing fertilizer is not even the most interesting part of agrichar.

Terra Preta for Carbon Reduction 2007