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Originally Posted by Eclipse Now
Yeah, Big Gav's a mate... another Sydney peak oiler.
I don't think that article answers the questions about how much fuel this could provide to the farming community though, and how dispersed the Biochar factories would have to be to make it fuel economical. How much biomass can those big-rigs carry to the factory, how far, using how much fuel, and then carry all the biochar and fuel back?
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Good question that why i would like to see mobile rigs
Or factories with large amounts of waste to have their own plants
Most council separate green waste now so we could have a plant at every council depot and the char milled fine and given to gardeners to save water, river-run-off-pollution ,and fertiliser. Milled fine it would be more difficlt to burn.
I notice my local Land Care Group harvests bags of weeds every week and 'tidies up' things like fallen bits of tree etc. In effect they are harvesting from the land every week. Some charcoal could be given to Land Gare Groups to make up for the lack of regular fires, & therefore charcoal, that the bush used to get.
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How are we going to do farming if oil imports are cut by 50% over the next 10 years? (rationing)
How are we going to continue mining, farming, freight and construction of the next generation of renewable energy systems (including Biochar power-plants) if many nations hit as low as 1/5 their fuel in the same amount of time? (Australia peaked in 2000 and our oil production has plummeted! If we can't import... we're stuffed. Instant Greater Depression, just add water. Well, remove oil.  )
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You could of course collect bio-oil from the pyrolysis waste stream.
you can use algae and sugar cane.
BUT
Lets hope we have cracked the hydrogen genie by then.
