How much fossil fuel is used per hour? for the charring machine and for the excavator? Seems like one excavator could/should easily feed 3-5 of the charbosses to be more efficient..
Donald. You can test the biochar yourself or have it analyzed. You will find that it is the real thing. These mobile systems make good quality chars. The yield is lower than in a gasifier or pyrolyzer but it will benefit the soil and soil biology just as well as chars from those devices.
I agree. It's not heating the oganic matter in the absence of oxygen. There seems to be a common acceptance of making charcoal with O2 and calling it biochar. This charcoal may improve the soil. However, from my research, biochar last much longer, acting as a much more effective carbon capture product, it has better water retention properties, and therefore has a greater benefit on soil microbial mass, and for many more years. To be fair, as I said, it's commonly accepted (although wrong) that burning organics to make charcoal is "biochar". -Ken.
This is incredible technology! Do you have any information on the efficiency of the Char Boss? My guess is 15%?
Should have used a larger unit for this demo but I see lots of applications here.
How much fossil fuel is used per hour? for the charring machine and for the excavator? Seems like one excavator could/should easily feed 3-5 of the charbosses to be more efficient..
This is not real biochar wood that is is just a charcoal those guys are doing it's not the real thing
Donald. You can test the biochar yourself or have it analyzed. You will find that it is the real thing. These mobile systems make good quality chars. The yield is lower than in a gasifier or pyrolyzer but it will benefit the soil and soil biology just as well as chars from those devices.
Can you buy this machine ?
biochar is charcoal charged up with minerals.
I agree. It's not heating the oganic matter in the absence of oxygen. There seems to be a common acceptance of making charcoal with O2 and calling it biochar. This charcoal may improve the soil. However, from my research, biochar last much longer, acting as a much more effective carbon capture product, it has better water retention properties, and therefore has a greater benefit on soil microbial mass, and for many more years.
To be fair, as I said, it's commonly accepted (although wrong) that burning organics to make charcoal is "biochar".
-Ken.