Biochar Cookstoves with Chris Farmer at Mother Earth News Fair WNC
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ค. 2014
- Chris Farmer speaks at the Western North Carolina Mother Earth News Fair on the exciting topic of creating a biochar cookstove that can produce high quality charcoal for inoculation and inclusion in gardens/farms. Learn the basics of how a biochar cookstove works and how you can put one together to begin your own small scale production that can transform wood waste into activated charcoal, a useful material to have on hand and one that can become charged with biology to make a stellar garden amendment.
A very informative video. Thank you for spending time to create it. 🙏
Here in Eastern part of India, I read books written by English Anthopologists on the lives of the Adivasies (ancient residents) tribes. They described the "slash and burn" type of agriculture practiced by them. Every 3 years they would shift their habitat to a new area of the forest and again do the "slash and burn" cultivation. This practice is now banned since a long time. After seeing your video I realised that they must have been preparing biochar, without affecting the fruit bearing and timber trees.
Unlike present day humans, they were kind to Mother Nature.
In coastal Karnataka among the Tuluvas, where we have a very wet monsoon season. There is a practice of "potta dina munn" ( burnt mud ). Twigs, cut branches, weeds, paddy husk, coconut waste and grass is layered in a pit, interlaced with soil. It is ignited and then completely covered with soil. This is used along with cow dung, in paddy cultivation and coconut farming.
In the last 50 years the use of chemical fertilizers has killed the living organisms in the soil. Our 8 major rivers are running dry.
Thanks to Sadhguru (the well-known mystic) efforts are on to plant 2.52 billion trees over a period of 12 years, on land adjoining the rivers. This is being done with people's participation.
Nearly 6 years later and this is still the best video explaining TLUD's I've seen so far!
Thank God! A site that knows that biochar is what you make from charcoal and not the charcoal itself.
You are a genius!
Great presentation. Possibly the most complete overview of biochar I've seen. And great info of the Champion Stove, he's very concise about how he explains things!
I saw on another of your vids how you are making hot water from the generated heat of the biochar operation. I'm fascinated by this concept
Very good video. You covered the key points exceptionally.
Complete explanation Big Thank you...
This video was very informative. Thanks
!!! I just ordered one. You guys just saved me a weekend out of my life!
16:53 "Pick up a spray bottle-make sure it's the right one!" Suggestion: add food coloring to the water to make it OBVIOUSLY different than the accelerant.
would you be able to point me to source where to buy a stove like this?
I would really like to see Chris use both items. Especially the beer keg.
This is fascinating stuff! Thanks for putting on this video. I have one of those stainless kegs and knew it would be useful for something. It’s already got the top cut out for making beer but I don’t want to make that much beer!. My friend bought 2.5 acres in Hawaii and wants to make biochar.
Looking forward to hear/see how this works out! Here in Portugal I haven't seen any kegs like that, we only have rubber coated ones which contain a smooth stainless cylinder inside without feet or handles because those are part of the rubber coating.
This is awsome, I have a small camp gasifier stove and just learned how to make a nice and compact soup can gasifier with a stainless steel mesh mantle for radiant heat. Awesome to have food, water, and heat in a compact format with an abundant fuel supply anywhere. This design is great and actually usable for day to day.
I'm confused. So are you lighting the fuel inside the inner chamber or are you putting fuel between the outer and inner chamber and lighting that? Would've been nice just to see a demonstration. Also on the comment about using it in a ditch to slow runoff and collect nutrients, isn't it also collecting and holding any toxic chemicals that might be running off?
this guy really knocks it out of the park in the last third of the lecture , bravo
Agreed. I think the real story is kind of buried here. We can produce a yield of charcoal from something we all do -- cooking or heating, which has a wide range of uses, but primarily it's used as a sponge to absorb excess chemicals. We have huge dead zones in the ocean and in the Gulf of Mexico mainly due to excess runoff from farms enriched with fertilizers -- whether that be from spraying crops or cesspools overflowing from pig farms. The char can absorb the excess - keeping it from our waterways, be collected and distributed higher in the land, act as a slow-release fertilizer for crops - reducing dependence on man made fertilizers, and sequester carbon for hundreds of years as a side effect. Sadly it can't keep Trump from tweeting, but is there anything more we can ask of a "waste"' material?
I have watched hundreds of biochar videos and this is one of the best. A question about the keg TLUD that you demonstrated. Is the chimney diameter and length important?
Great video!
Why is the cc off?
Wood burned in open ground, any white ash excluded when composted becomes a biochar . Am I right ?
i made the keg cooker and the question I have is, do I let it burn out completely or do I quench it at some point? I cant find any info in this anywhere else online.
Great presentation. My question: Does the beer keg tlud have to be made from a stainless steel keg or will an aluminum keg work too. or will the aluminum melt or deform?? Melting point of aluminum is about 1200F. If pyrolysis zone its 500-800F.. my thinking is that it should work. Aluminum keg is easier to drill and to find at times.
Chris’s reference to the champion designer : Dr Paul Anderson (Dr. Tlud) is sending me down a rabbit hole filled with biochar and methods to produce it.
I live in an area with abundant feedstocks from urban forestry, hurricanes, and shipping pallets. But Real estate is pricy for having production space.
Because we all share one atmosphere I believe Carbon negative cook stoves need to be in widespread practice in all countries, Not just in the third world. Of course start where renewables are more easily accepted and have big impact because there are limited resources and lack of other options requiring more infrastructure; where adoption is out of necessity. But In ‘first’ world countries adoption must be out of responsibility. I live in a country that is a first world “leader” yet ohh so very waste-full and entrenched in the momentum of the dino fuel err-a (‘error’). We need a gigaton of help to cast off the fossil fuel addiction which is pervasive and entangling.
Aluminium will melt, the outside of the fuel cylinder of my indoor TLUD stove which is much smaller in diameter reaches temperatures up to about 700 Celsius, the bottom gets even hotter at the end of the burn.
Can we use Fish Amino Acid dissolved in water and pour over the biochar ?.
Excellent.
could you build a TLUD stove that would fit inside a Rayburn for instance, so you can piggy-back on it to do all your cooking and heating, using gassification then use the Biochar to sequester carbon on a daily basis and improve soils? I fancy using it to sprinkle in a composting loo...
Not sure about fitting it inside a Rayburn but TLUD stoves can be taken inside and I've been running an indoor TLUD that is properly vented with a flue since Oktober 2017.
This year I've finally improved upon my design enough to publish some plans soon.
Is there anything farm sized on the market ? This device is nice and ways to small for our needs ...
I’m planning to buy the same stove . Is there any safety precaution or danger in using this stove
Fire can be hot and is contagious to flammable material
Ecxelente felicitaciones
Where can I buy such biochar cookstoves?
you can put another retort above the chimney .
Could a larger version be used to heat a small cabin?
I am trying to connect these dots myself. I watched a video of a version of a pyrolithic stove that is used in Europe. I am missing some of the details as it is in Italian and subtitled. The channel is Bosco di Ogigia. the particular video is "how do we warm up? Pyrolithic stove and other tips". It looks like the basis of the stove is similar to the basic TLUD and then set inside a cast housing of refractory cement. Then the home owner can finish to their own taste with plasters or tile. It is tall and narrow like the traditional Swedish tile stoves.. I'm going to keep searching and see if I can find definitive plans... but so far, no luck.
Can I buy one bio Char cook stove and beer barrel from you?
Excellent demo of high-quality TLUDs and how to make high-quality biochar. Could answer the concerns of many biochar critics. One fact that would be useful to include is that it is not biochar manufacture that removes the carbon from the atmosphere. Trees and other green plants do that! Pyrolysing cellulose makes the carbon recalcitrant (nonreactive), allowing it to stay in soil.
+John Bedell Making Biochar is carbon negative. The biomass used would have become CO2 in our air by decomposition if not charred. The Char is then used as a soil amendment that encourages plant growth which sequesters more carbon.
i see what you're saying, living web. but though the improvement to the soil leads to taller trees or more carbon storing biomass, those plants will still off gas it unless they get buried under a bog to make coal or are somehow charred into charcoal. plants only store carbon until they decompose.
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There is a fellow in Oregon who makes biochar and generates electricity.
Don't tell your home owners insurance that you store yards of woodchips in your hot dry attic.
No smoking zone. Storing bone dry char can be a safety issue too. Dry char is lighter for transport but can catch a spark and ignite easily. Plus it is dusty when fine. But wet char is heavier for transport. I imagine Various production methods produce wet vs dry in the end
@@jacobbrizammito7187 dumping the whole content of the TLUD into a bucket of water is my preferred method of quenching it. That blows open the pores much more than just a few quirts of water and makes all the char hydrophilic from the start. It also washes away any potential ash which can form if your feedstock isn't packed down perfectly due to it maybe not being the most uniform material.
If we take all of the carbon dioxide out of the air then how will plants be able to make simple sugars through photosynthesis?
Why not just buy a bag of natural hardwood lump charcoal?
I don’t believe there is any difference in lump charcoal purchased in the grocery store, and the charcoal you are producing. It’s a hypothesis, but I haven’t seen any scientific evidence, and you did not give any citations to prove this fact. I have seen several people make their own charcoal, and they do not always get all the wood turned into char. Would this be any different than the lump charcoal purchased in the grocery store? Wouldn’t it leave some of the water and fuel left behind? With some of that wood that’s left behind the beneficial to the garden? Wouldn’t the bacteria and fungus that you add into it to make it biochar be biodegradable? Would it not add to your garden? I haven’t seen anyone but lump charcoal that has been inoculated and a bed next to biochar in a bed to see what the scientific evidence is. I believe there is a lot of marketing to get people who live in apartments, or who have balcony gardens to purchase biochar because they do not have the methods to make their own throughout history. There has been marketing to get people to purchase products because they state that they are better and there is a generic version available. I’d like to see some sort of microscopic testing done on lump charcoal versus bio char so people can know the difference. Let’s call it Coke versus Pepsi and a blind challenge. They are both flavored different however, they are basically the same. Slightly different formulas however, they are both flavored carbonated drinks.