I’m a huge Biochar believer and have sequestered 5 tons into my 6 acre property in the last year but there were some irresponsible statements on other brushed over topics in this presentation. 75% less meat consumption is believable when you consider what governments and central banks are doing to the value of their currencies. I am always appreciative of those who take the time and energy to create content, but this is really just regurgitation of the same talking points, particularly the ‘save the planet’ portion. Cows/Methane are a huge problem? What about the 60-90 million Bison that used to graze the American plains, did they not fart? No argument factory farming is a net negative on the environment but it also allows for low cost, high protein diets (essential to the development of the human brain). Regenerative Agriculture, in which ruminates play a key role, is utilizing the way nature already works and is immensely beneficial to the land, more nutrient dense and scalable (to name only a few benefits). Perhaps brush up on more of a topic before declaring so ‘matter of fact’ that something is this way or that.

During those ancient times human sanitation was done with the creative use of the chamber pot & charcoal from the kitchen fires to eliminate bad odors. The huge pits of tera pretta demonstrate their incredible understanding of sustainability & their relationship to nature. European Spaniards were still conducting themselves with poor hygiene, not taking regular baths, traveling diseased with scurvy, cleaning wounds with maggots, & blood letting.

I am guessing that the fact you did not include any mention of activating the bio char prior to use in the fields will be covered in another presentation. Being American here in the Philippines Islands I have seen with my own eyes the making of CRH (Carbonized Rice Hull) in the fields and then just spred onto the soil with the belief that it will improve the soils, seems that the teachings here are a bit out of text with what needs to be done to bio-char to help it make the nutrients available to the plants...non activated bio-char will lock up the nutrients for a few (1 to 3) before releaseing them to the plants and adding new bio-char each year does not solve the problem.

The title alone, so arrogant and patronizing, tells that you're just regurgitating info you found on the internet and didn't have any personal serious experience with biochar.

Excellent biochar content! Yes, biochar does deserve a comeback! When you do an update, please consider diving into the #waste2value as mentioned at the 2m30s mark? The end of the video focuses on the use of first-use materials such as crop residues and native forestry materials. So much biochar is produced only from waste stream and low value materials which include items such as; construction & demolition waste, industrial carbon based wastes, food waste, municipal green waste, municipal solid waste, and more. There are hundreds of millions of tons of such material available yearly. Appropriate materials can be utilized to make biochar for agricultural purposes. Some biochars are likely better for non-food producing opportunities such as; turf management, shrub, and non-fruit bearing tree applications or storm-water management. We need green spaces that store carbon and use less water. We need to clean storm water so we don't pollute downstream bodies of water and ecosystems. Other biochars can be utilized as material for industrial applications such as; building materials, cement, asphalt, blended plastics, as aggregates, and much more. Every day there is a new industry adopting biochar as material. There are more and more commercial producers coming online with production between 1,000 and 20,000 tons of biochar yearly. With the growth of carbon markets and companies seeking to meet ESG objectives, we see millions upon millions of dollars entering the biochar industry. The black-eye of a decade ago has faded, the nearly 30,000 peer-reviewed biochar papers show the science is there. As the availability to market of the material increases, the more in-field studies will be performed, the more lab studies, and etc. This has moved from a novelty and is transitioning into a full-fledged global industry. There are so many knock-on effects of biochar that are the benefit of biochar. Examples include; reducing greenhouse gases, reducing size of waste materials, reducing the amount of chemical fertilizers, water savings means reducing amount of energy required to move the water around (less emissions), and much more. Biochar is safe, scalable, and shovel ready!

Nothing will destroy the native Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in our soils like Biochar will. No need for it unless you have sandy soil.

Well narrated the topic of Biochar. My sincere appreciation to your effort. I fully agree with you. Dr.N.Barathi Bamboo Scientist India

Saw a video. They were blaming Nitrate fertilizer was the reason the Mississippi River is drying up. Then I saw a report. The Netherlands were shutting down 3,000 farms because of Nitrogen fertilizer. May not be long before they ban farming along the Mississippi River, and the rivers that flow into it.

Rhe problem with indutrialzed thinking is that ut supporta mono cultural thinking, raie husk, coconut husk. Indigenous people weren't blocked by s iebce. They burned variety mixed with various other organic matter. This overtime creates a siul composition spectrum. Industry doesn't want to adapt, it forces everything else in rigid payterns that nature be er applies. Why can aboriginals burn land without causing Kl rheir homes getting on fire? Ince again know your land and learn to go with uts flow.

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