The US EPA created the Food Waste Recovery Hierarchy (FWRH) in an effort to divert various organics towards the highest and best end uses. Sadly an inordinate amount of food waste, roughly 65% of the total waste stream, still ends … Continue reading
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This weekend I tabled at a local event to keep spreading the word on biochar. A woman came up and was simply gushing about biochar so I asked her why she was so enthusiastic. Most people that have ever heard … Continue reading
The question of how to price biochar has come up many, many times in conversations over the past several years. While there is no perfect answer, I would argue that the current price is still too expensive for biochar to … Continue reading
I am always flattered and excited when asked to do product reviews related to biochar. Recently Bruce F. designed the CharCone, a mini Kon-Tiki geared towards the cooking crowd and asked if I’d be interested in taking it out for … Continue reading
The notion that scaling up biochar could lead to deforestation came up again recently in a discussion amongst some very well regarded biochar experts when we were talking about barriers to building the biochar industry. While it is feasible that … Continue reading
Recently I had the honor of joining some of the gurus of biochar research at Cornell University at their one day Biochar/Bioenergy seminar. I was asked to talk about something new & interesting so I took the liberty to talk about something … Continue reading
As the college year comes to a close the RIT senior design team focusing on biochar based roof tiles that I have been working with is showing some exciting results. The team was tasked with coming up with a tile … Continue reading
I hate to desecrate those supposedly ‘harmless’ desiccant packs that are found in an increasing number of packages, but there is a much more benign alternative! Allow me to explain… Desiccants are materials used to prevent spoilage, mold, mildew, odors, … Continue reading
Discovery of something doesn’t always lead to quick, practical applications of said discovery. For some game-changing discoveries such as aluminum, practical applications had to wait a few decades for future discoveries (e.g. airplanes) before the real value could be realized. Electricity … Continue reading
As I mentioned in the previous post, the amount of biochar research happening around the world these days is growing exponentially. It is no longer feasible, if in fact it ever was, for one person or even a single organization, … Continue reading