Biochar Manufacturers

[erich]

"To do amazing things, microbes need food, shelter, air and water just like we do. A type of Bokashi mix for soils may be more appropriate than straight EM, or EM with char. "

As one subscriber to the biochar list put it;

"Microbes like to sit down when they eat"

[erich]

October 28, 2008

U.S. Department of Agriculture to Evaluate CQuest™ Biochar

Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement Signed
The objective of the biochar research is to quantify the effects of amending soils with CQuest™ Biochar on crop productivity, soil quality, carbon sequestration and water quality. Field trials will involve incorporation of biochar in replicated field plots and on-farm strip trials with monitoring of crop yields, soil quality, water quality, emissions of greenhouse gasses, and soil carbon sequestration. Laboratory studies will involve amending soils with biochar and quantifying changes in soil quality and microbial activity during incubations.

Biochar will be shipped from Dynamotive's West Lorne facility to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) locations in Iowa, South Carolina, Idaho, Washington, and other ARS locations. Initial results are expected during the 2009 growing season.

Dynamotive Energy Systems | The Evolution of Energy

[erich]

Biochar Manufacturers About Sustainable Power Corp.

Sustainable Power Corp. is an international green energy total service provider focused on environmentally safe production of Vertroleum® biofuels and power generation. The company has the exclusive rights to develop and manage a portfolio of green energy plants utilizing a renewable fuel source able to be produced from non-food feed stock. For more information please visit Sustainable Power Corp. - Home.

The Rivera Process is a method developed by John H. Rivera to convert almost any form of biomass into three very important products - liquid fuel, gaseous fuel, and biochar. This type of process is particularly important in today's world. Because global warming is caused by the use of fossil fuels which increase the CO2 levels in our atmosphere, it is important to replace fossil fuels with biofuels that do not increase CO2 levels. It is also important to develop technologies that remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store it permanently in the earth.

Sustainable Power Corp. - Rivera Process

[erich]

OOps.........I didn't do my do dilegence on Mr. Rivera, and got my comeuppance
from the Biochar list;

Behalf Of Brian Hans
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 3:29 AM
To: biochar@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [biochar] Sustainable Power Corp........The Rivera Process



USSE is a scam.



I have personally talked with this joker years ago and he had the balls to try and talk big science over me. He was making up all these large words and fantastic ideas and trying to string them together into something he had even more balls to call 'Rivera Process' after his own name.



Stuff like 'nanobacteria divide in a vacuum and that is why they have more mass in the end of the process than they do in the beginning of the process.' If I remember right, they started with a bushel of soy which is 60lbs and ended up with like 80lbs of mass, all of that 80lbs being sellable energy products ofcourse. He even had the nerve to tell me that the Dominican Republic Gov was heavly invested in him.



Finally the SEC got wind and shut them down. Here is a link.

SEC Claims Biofuel a Fraud | Investor's Watchblog

[erich]

Biochar Engineering builds biochar production equipment. We design, develop, and deploy industrial equipment that uses waste biomass, such as agricultural or forestry waste, to produce biochar. According to NASA climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, biochar is one of the key ways to remove net carbon from the atmosphere. Biochar increases soil fertility and decreases net carbon in the atmosphere. The company is currently producing small first-generation field-scale units for research in agricultural soil fertility, mine tailings reclamation and forest management. In the future these will continue to be scaled-up to shipping container-sized systems, and ultimately to large fixed installations for biochar based fertilizer production. BEC's technology mimics nature's intelligence to create valuable co-products, ultimately including biochar and process heat with or without electricity or liquid fuels.
BioChar Engineering :: Home


Their Beta product; "BiocharPlus" , $0.50 / Lb, (which has a name easily confused with CarbonChar Group's "Biochar+")

http://www.biocharplus.com/

[erich]

SynGest, Inc......20 TPD of bio-char new


(January 21, 2009) – SynGest, Inc. announced that its venture to manufacture bio-ammonia from biomass will be launched in the state of Iowa. Three years from now, when SynGest’s plant goes into operation, Iowa’s renewable corn stover (stalks, cobs, etc.) will help replenish its soil with organic ammonia and bio-char.

SynGest’s facility will process 450 tons per day (TPD) of field-dried stover to yield 150 TPD of ammonia plus 20 TPD of bio-char, a valuable soil conditioning agent. Stover will be gathered from 75,000 acres on nearby farms, while the bio-ammonia and bio-char will serve to fertilize 500,000 acres under corn. Depending upon local ammonia prices, the plant will generate annual revenues between $25 and $35 million.

SynGest - A BioEnergy Company

[Freerangefarmer]

Erich,

Could you please be so kind as to post some links to the research done at Virginia Tech?

Thanks,

FRF

Originally Posted by erich

I spoke with Jon Nilsson of the CarbonChar Group.

"Biochar+" is available now only with orders of four pallets ( 4 tons )

40 - 50# bags / pallet @ $50 per bag = $2000 / ton

He said the 2008 trials at Virginia Tech showed a 46% increase in yield of tomato transplants grown with just 2 - 5 cups (2 - 5%) "Biochar+" per cubic foot of growing medium.


An idea whose time has come | Carbon Char Group

[erich]

Research Results for CHARGROW | Carbon Char Group