[Stoves] Fw: Request to forward:

[AJH]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:24:17 -0600, Ron Larson wrote:

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>    2.  I support the general concept of charcoaling leaves in the field and hope the concept expands.  But I predict that in the future, that charcoal will be found to be more valuable (higher economic return to the charcoal producers and society) for sequestering (mixing in with soil) in the same or other near-by field rather than for its energy value.

Hi Ron, and there was I thinking I was keeping *this* seat warm for
you!

I think there's a way to go to fulfill your prediction all the time we
burn coal but it does make an interesting idea in that the micro
economics  could mean it could be a cash crop where there is no hope
of competing with a large coal producer. If the carbon credits can be
managed, and that's a big IF to my mind because gross distortions of
the market by fancy mechanisms like this will attract corruption, it
gives a near subsistence farmer the means to maintain fertility and
cash in the credits.

How do you envisage it working, to my mind the carbon needs to be
denatured from fuel use before it can be certified as sequestered. 

Everyone can have a do it yourself terra preta kit by buying or making
a Reed-Larson type stove.
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>    3.  My prediction is based on rapidly growing interest in such "biochar" (see www.iaiconference.org/2007conferenceagenda.html ) or "terra preta" soils (see terrapreta at bioenergylists.org).  

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Andrew Heggie