![]() ![]() The cheapest method and that with the lowest carbon footprint will probably be incorporating cover crops, at least in annual cropping situations. growing cover crops and tilling them in or composting wastes and adding them to soils. So, with that in mind, the cost and value of the carbon sequestration has to be compared with other means (and their respective costs and benefits) to achieve the same sequestration end, i.e. The material then has to be trucked back out to the application site, applied, and worked into the soil as appropriate. ![]() To produce biochar efficiently, the raw material to be charred has to be collected, trucked to a facility, and then subjected to extremely high temperatures (>700 degrees Celsius), all activities with a high energetic (carbon footprint) cost. Three seem to be three major research directions – actual use of biochar in ag, forest, stormwater, or other settings recoverable value from wood waste that would otherwise be left to rot or needs to be removed to reduce fire concerns value of biochar in carbon sequestration to help reverse the impact of human CO2 emissions on climate change.Īs you might guess, it is a complicated. There is quite a bit of research going on around the country on biochar including some in Oregon. Do you have published, current, projected, research in the effects of charcoal amendment to agricultural soils/forest soils? ![]()
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