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[Taildragerdriver]

RBlack:

I have not contacted Erich specifically but he is on many of the same forums I have been on. I currently can't think of any help specifically others might be except in forums like this to be able to exchange ideas. Currently we have some pretty eminent scientists working with us and that is a big help as you might guess.

Our current grant proposal is for 3 years but at least on the operational study we would continue to monitor all the various variables I would expect. We expect if things go well that we will add a lot of work in the future in optimizing the charcoal production facility to use byproducts and expand on the control of the products and temperatures.

Ideally we will be publishing results of the greenhouse studies as soon as we can. As is not uncommon in studies like this there will be progress reports. Just having this pasture modified in this way creates a lot of opportunities to monitor and publish the changes for years. I would expect long term as a more robust microbial community develops interesting things will continue to happen.

Your idea of putting charcoal back on a forested or other natural landscape, we have been thinking of that too. In fact it is a very interesting idea. The main problem is that it would be even harder to study. There are lots more complex interactions going on in natural landscapes than on farmland. That doesn't mean that it is not something we might want to do in the near future if we are making lots of charcoal just to see what will happen. It would be worth doing just to see what would happen.

I'll try to report back to this forum if we get our grant. I will continue to put in progress reports as we work if we do.

Thanks

Taildragerdriver