No, all good. It’s been a while since I thought about char, and honestly a lot do my stuff was based on ‘what does it do?’

You get gas by products you can use to keep things going but it’s a lot of energy to dry the feedstock if needed and get it up to temperature. Again, you can make char crudely, but it’s environmental benefit drops quickly.

Just watch the pH. Hotter chars are more basic. The benefit you’re seeing is probably due to increased water holding capacity and the microbe habitat I mention earlier.

Because soils in and of themselves are generally productive. Aerating soils (tilling) boosts the microbial community, making it consume organic matter in the soil. Biochar is highly stable, so it wouldn’t be consumed, but instead the existing organic matter, which acts as the massive pool nutrients would then be consumed. So what you’d see, is a priming effect at least a few years, followed by a drop in soil productivity.

Biochar is useful as a soil amendment in the right conditions, but its effect is really situational and highly dependent on cooking temperatures and feedstock. I used stuff cooked around 380C in an attempt to allow for some of the feedstock’s more available carbon forms to be accessible to microbes. It didn’t really work like that, but I ended up with an N boost in my soils, which we suspected was due to proving more microbial habitat (due to char surface area).

It’s also really good at catching and holding onto leaching metals, and nitrogen too, in the right conditions

Hey, I can answer this one. I did my M.Sc on amending soils with biochar.

I’m not sure what Stockholm is doing, though.

To get good recovery of biochar, you need a pretty controlled environment. It’s also energy intensive to make; you need a heat source that’s not going to produce CO2, ideally, and cut into the benefit that you’d get by sequestering carbon in the first place. Like if it takes 1 ton of waste wood fuel to make 1 ton of biochar, it’s pretty much a wash. You could use green energy I suppose, like it you had a hydro grid set up to fire whatever furnace you’re cooking the stuff in, but that’s not always available or scalable (in the sense you can do it everywhere).

You CAN make biochar crudely, and we’ve been doing so for centuries, but the rub is that your recovery quickly drops and decreases in recovery are increases in CO2 produced. I was toying with this idea to manage non-merchantable timber on mines, and using the char as a soil amendment.

Suppose everything DOES work the way we want, though. Good recovery, cheap energy, people onboard. We now have a mountain of char and no place to put it. You could go underground mines). Stockpiling it aboveground would a nightmare and massive fire hazard… Etc. Etc.

I like using char to store carbon and it’ll stay for a long time, but you can’t just capture it at the source like you can with other forms of carbon capture and storage. Those other methods don’t work well either… At least with char you have a solid to manage rather than stuffing gas underground and hoping the earth doesn’t fart.

Like a lot of things, char use like you envision is ‘we would if we could but we can’t so we wont’.

What is a tally and why are we whacking them?

This is called the tragedy of the Commons

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Good thing the US is cutting USDA funding at unprecedented rates!

This trend is gaining traction. It stated with twitter, then other platforms followed, Reddit does it now too.

You can’t monetize unlogged in traffic I guess.

Imagine if Obama’s administration did this. The Republican would collectively and simultaneously cream themselves (ew).

It’s definitely lacking some colour, but we keep our house very tidy.

Not going to lie, I like the clean look of the millenial house more. We collectively grew up in clutter, where your grandma would have weird porcelain dolls, or a cabinet to display her fine china.

My grandpa had a taxidermied pheasant, great horned owl, and a coyote pelt on his living room wall.

Nothing wrong with all that, it’s just weird as a kid.

Our parents generation hoarded shit, because their parents lived through the depression. That has its own value but it gets overwhelming.

Due to the straight of Hormuz? Is that the linkage you’re making?

How do they identify a particular person though? I get you could see people as present or not or moving around the room, but it’s insane that they would be able to tell facial features etc.

The whole situation is wild.

The UCP literally handed separatists Alberta voter information in a ‘i’m gonna leave this alcohol in front of this alcoholic fresh out of rehab’ way

And in a ‘here is a gun, and how it works, mr. Person on suicide watch’ showed the separatists how to use the leaked data by demonstrating using the last UCP premier’s information. Her and her entire base hat him because he isn’t hardline enough and actually implemented COVID knockdowns etc.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/former-alberta-premier-jason-kenney-personal-data-9.7192054

Once caught she blames the opposition like any good politician

https://globalnews.ca/news/11838074/alberta-separatism-centurion-project-voter-list-politician-accusations/

And then the separatist magically go from 173k signatures to 300k when they were struggling to get signatures

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-separatists-say-more-than-300k-have-signed-petition-9.7187218

The courts say that lmao you can’t separate as it violate indigenous treaties and she goes nah we gonna challenge the ruling

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/alberta-pushing-ahead-with-question-on-separation-on-fall-referendum-ballot-in-spite-of-court-ruling/

She’s so corrupt and clearly a separatist Premier. Separation would be the stupidest thing for Alberta you could manage.

Oof.

It’s easy for me to say what I would do in your situation because I’m not living it.

Since she made this decision, though, she should have to carry the weight. Your job remains the same overall, which is to act as a safety net.

Those social plan she had? Out the window. You have a baby to support now, dear, how is you resume coming along?

Lol. That’s not even big compared to some of the ones around here. The thing has a moderate leveling kit to give it more ground clearance. Douche nozzles around here easily stick on 6 inch leveling kits. Heck, I’ve seen guys take F-650s or comparable, and turn them into pickups.

I don’t get it.

I have newer honda pilot, and that thing is a boat. I only like it because kids + hockey means I need a fair bit of storage space, and it’s great in snow. I drove a Mazda 3 before kids, and was plenty happy in that.

Don’t worry it’s all part of God’s plan /s