China and biochar

Why do I get the feeling that when a chinese person hears the word "small business" he or she is not applying the same mindset as a westerner?

Anyhow, enough of my philosophy lesson. Here is a "small" business from Beijing, China focusing on a variety of uses for the biochar they produce. Manufacturing as well as R&D is on their list of endeavours. They have had great success in using biochar as a purifier of heavy-metal polluted soils.

http://www.biowindbell.com/

PS. The blog is in a state of occasional updates. I need the blog to stay alive, but not to be filled with useless posts. Balance is the key word here.

The PYREG 500 from Germany

This exciting piece of equipment is the kind of machinery I was envisioning a few years back.

Combining heat, power and biochar production in a mobile construction is one of my long term dreams. 

Energy Farmers Australia

This awesome contraption chrystalizes my idea of biochar making. The mobile biochar kiln by Energy Farmers Australia

Other Finns on biochar

I don't know this guy (yet) but he seems to have an interest in biochar just like me.
Ville Karttunen, pleased to meet you.

Sanga Moses, a life changer from Uganda

It is said that this guy sold his bed in order to develop a biochar making kiln. Here he is featured in national geographic :
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/12/141215-sanga-moses-uganda-energy-wood-burning-fuel#b01g16f20b15

So Science took an interest in biochar

http://www.nature.com/news/agriculture-state-of-the-art-soil-1.16699

Charboard and 55 uses of biochar in paper products

The Biochar Journal is now online. In this ad free, open source journal you will be able to read articles from the cutting edge in biochar research. Personally I find the article about charboard, an excellent example of concrete use of biochar in everyday life. The idea of charboard is to replace the traditional filler component of cardboard with biochar. This gives new and beneficial properties to packaging materials. At the end of the article is a list of 55 potential uses for charboard. Imagine wall paper that would absorb odors and that could be composted afterwards, mitigating CO2 in the process.

The journal is asking for my and your help to support upcoming issues of the journal.

charboard with different levels of biochar. From: biochar-journal.org

This is amazing stuff. I can't wait to test this out for myself. How do I make charboard in my back yard?