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terra preta
Apr. 1st, 2008 09:21 amSo, I'm on a mailing list about terra preta that has a lot of scientists, third world farmers, and others trying to assess the global benefits of using biochar as fertilizers. The mailing list has several main sorts of people:
The hilarious thing is that the scientists and the farmers both work on the same thing and their methods of investigation are similar, but the techniques are wildly different. There's a current conversation about nitrogen fixing that has both really complex scientific apparatus described and the phrase "I requested my kids to urinate in the clay jars (~ 6 inches diameter and ~10 inches height) with very fine holes (2mm dia) at the bottom filled with charcoal produced from using Magh-1 woodgas stoves."
As for the climate change deniers, they don't seem to really be participating in the same reality as everyone else, so they just get ignored.
- scientists trying to figure out how to best use biochar
- people trying to discredit global warming (because biochar is a carbon sequestration technique.)
- third world farmers trying to figure out how to best use biochar.
- people interested in biochar who are doing research in it
The hilarious thing is that the scientists and the farmers both work on the same thing and their methods of investigation are similar, but the techniques are wildly different. There's a current conversation about nitrogen fixing that has both really complex scientific apparatus described and the phrase "I requested my kids to urinate in the clay jars (~ 6 inches diameter and ~10 inches height) with very fine holes (2mm dia) at the bottom filled with charcoal produced from using Magh-1 woodgas stoves."
As for the climate change deniers, they don't seem to really be participating in the same reality as everyone else, so they just get ignored.
