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I loved it when it first came out on Catalyst. See the transcript here. It was great... some good music near the end too... who's the group they play at 8:17?

Catalyst: Agrichar – A solution to global warming? - ABC TV Science

Also, National Geographic has a bit on it.

National Geographic magazine:

Rough calculations show that "the amount of carbon we can put into the soil is staggering," Woods says. Last year Cornell University soil scientist Johannes Lehmann estimated in Nature that simply converting residues from commercial forestry, fallow farm fields, and annual crops to charcoal could compensate for about a third of U.S. fossil-fuel emissions. Indeed, Lehmann and two colleagues have argued that humankind's use of fossil fuels worldwide could be wholly offset by storing carbon in terra preta nova.