Horticulture and biochar

Over at Carbon Gold in the UK some really interesting results are emerging. Applying their enriched biochar once when planting has given on average 11% of increased crop yield.

http://www.hortidaily.com/article/29764/European-biochar-trials-show-promising-results

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