cwhitt said:Edited for correction: Bio-char is charcoal produced from plant matter and stored in the soil as a means of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Is this commercial bio-char produced in some miracle mode that takes no energy, produces no unwanted residue , and is produced some how from material that does not need or produce the elements , without destroying reduced forests, these paranoid scientists are so paranoid about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
For your garden, it IS a bonus but all the wonders of bio-char out side of simple garden used are theories.
Slash and char of the Amazon reduces carbon over slash and burn but HEY the Amazon is still disappearing and the oxygen it produces is disappearing with it.
Wow, we still eliminate the Amazon while producing less carbon those plants need to live.
Not very many years ago Switch Grass was going to be the latest greatest bio-fuel save the Earth scheme, well guess what; when real world farming of Switch Grass was applied it was not better to worse that the Corn it was supposed to replace.
The whole carbon Chicken-Littels shtick is rather sad as their is ZERO proof , only theories pushing this scam.
If you want an eye opener, read what happens to scientists who challenge a theory that has the consensus approval of "world leading " scientists, especially if they are correct.
Pretty similar to what happened to those who challenged Stalin, only they were not killed, but they fore ever found a job not related science.
There are on-line articles out there about the ostracized scientists who challenged theories that had consensus especially when they were correct.
As I said, bio-char for your garden is a very good thing, over think it beyond that and I think there is a bridge in Brooklyn, NY for sale cheap.
