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Biochar is a “shovel-ready” climate technology, but can it scale up? | Grist (grist.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

There's also kind of a history of biochar requiring a bunch of energy to move biomass to the retort, heat it up, and move it back to the field. Power all that with fossil fuels, and you can very easily end up emitting more than you remove.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

At home on a small scale I have been doing it in a hole in the ground. So far it's working out pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I saw a video recently with a guy using only a specific type of BBQ Charcoal https://yewtu.be/watch?v=5ZEGCFAEj3o

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