News -10-22-10 Barbecues to Remove CO2 (Guardian.co.uk) "Barbecues that remove CO2 from the air could play a role in the fight against climate change according to Durwood Zaelke, a leading expert on rapid responses to global warming." 10-10 Papers -Algae-Coated Buildings Touted as Climate Fix (CNet.com) "Engineers envision that long plastic tubes, called photobioreactors, be integrated into building designs or retrofitted onto existing skyscrapers. Algae would grow from pumped-in carbon dioxide and sunlight and be harvested for use either as a liquid fuel to run in a combined heat-and-power unit or turned into biochar, or charcoal used as a soil conditioner that also sequesters carbon from the air." 09-09 -Biochar Product Standards (IBI) Provides draft standards for biochar products and (at the end) a sample label to identify biochar in a container. The draft standards also provide limitations on the amount of other substances may be included in the biochar product. 06-11 -Climate Change: What We Can Do (Evaluation and Development Institute) "Earth's climate became very stable 10,000 years ago, allowing for agriculture for the first time. Our stable climate arose from a balance of three ingredients: -Greenhouse gases -Ocean currents and -Polar ice Greenhouse gases provided a stable temperature to allow ocean currents to mix heat and cold around the globe and to maintain a relatively constant amount of polar ice. We now have 1/3 more CO2 in the air than we had only 150 years ago--and CO2 stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. The extra carbon keeps more heat in the air. The extra heat is absorbed by polar ice, soil, and the oceans. The ice over the Arctic Ocean is expected to be gone during summers within 5-10 years. Instead of ice over the Arctic Ocean reflecting heat, the Arctic Ocean will absorb heat. This will slow the ocean currents even more--they already are slowing because of the change in climate. When the ocean currents stop and the Arctic ice melts, we will have a climate catastrophe that can be expected to last thousands of years. Permafrost in Russia and other regions will melt, releasing gigantic amounts of carbon and methane stored in the soil. The release will trigger even more extreme climate." "Only one cost-effective solution has been found for quickly reducing the carbon in the air:" "Each year we must convert enough biomass (organic waste) into biochar (charcoal) to extract at least 7 gigatons of carbon from the air and place it in our soils." 08-09 -One Last Chance to Save Mankind (TreeHugger.com) "For those that don’t know who James Lovelock is here’s the one sentence bio: Originator of the Gaia hypothesis, chemist, did work on atmospheric chlorofluorocarbons which eventually led them from being banned, advocate of nuclear power. Which is to say, that when James Lovelock says humanity only has one chance left not to get annihilated by the effects of climate change in the 21st century, it’s worth shutting up and listening to what the man says." 10-10 -Study: Biochar Can Provide Substantial CO2 Reduction (Tri-CityHerald.com) "The most comprehensive analysis yet of the worldwide potential of biochar -- a charcoal-like substance -- shows it could offset up to 1.8 billion metric tons annually of the world's human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study." "The study found the maximum total offset amounts to 12 percent of the current 15.4 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions that human activity adds to the atmosphere each year." 10-10 How Much Biochar Will Be Needed to Return to Pre-Industrial Levels of Carbon? (TerraPetra.BioenergyLists.org) "The Earth’s surface area is 51 gigahectares (nice unit!) of which 1.36 gHa are arable (by George M’s figure) - that’s 2.7% of the total. So:" "If all the 'excess' carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were converted into carbon and spread across all the earth’s arable lands, there would be 17kg of charcoal per square metre, in a layer 8cm thick." "That’s not an unfeasible notion. The Gardening with Biochar FAQ mentions biochar application rates of around 5kg/m2." 08-09 The Value of Biochar (Economist.com) "But there are those who think biochar may give humanity a new tool to attack the problem of global warming, by providing a convenient way of extracting CO2 from the atmosphere, burying it and improving the quality of the soil on the way." 08-09 Wood Biomass Available for Biochar (BiocharEngineering.com) "The US alone generates 368M tons a year of forest product waste, with another 60M tons/year of wood from the Rocky Mountain pine beetle epidemic thus far; along with almost 1B tons of agricultural waste." 05-09 Projects Biochar Crusher (Appropedia.org) A crusher for some types of biochar, such as corn cobs, may be needed. This crusher is supposed to be able to keep dust out of the air when crushing the cobs. 07-09 Comparison of Lump Charcoal Makers (NakedWhiz.com) Provides a review of the various brands of lump coal. 07-09 Comparison of Lump Charcoal with Briquette Charcoal (NakedWhiz.com) Provides a comparison in burn time, amount of charcoal needed, heat, and smell. 07-09 Retail Cost of Lump Charcoal (ChucksSmokehouse.com) The Humphrey charcoal costs $5.99 for a 5 pound bag of charcoal. The "lump" charcoal has not been compressed into a standard size and therefore does not have chemical binders added. 07-09 Purchase Resources Biochar Brokers (BiocharBrokers.com) "BioChar itself is backed by over 30 years of research and promises to drastically reduce greenhouse gasses, increase crop yields up to 400%, and provides new life to our ecosystem." Awesome Library does not endorse this product but provides it as an example. 05-09 Maker of Activated Charcoal (Biochar) (CalgonCarbon.com) "Calgon Carbon Corporation (NYSE:CCC), a global manufacturer and supplier of activated carbon and innovative treatment systems, provides value-added technologies and services for optimizing production processes and safely purifying the environment." 06-09

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