Latest comments posted about Can biochar help save the world? (1) on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/2836-Can-biochar-help-save-the-world-1- http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/2836-Can-biochar-help-save-the-world-1- Bio-char is not complicated, I make it often at home in an old steel rubbish bin. The vegetables love it. Doing it on a large scale is not complicated. We need a shift of awareness that growing food requires first growing the soil (not tormenting it with synthetic poisons and fertilisers). Secondly we need an economy set up to regenerate resources rather than to use them up and dump them as wastes. This is rather simple to do, please see this NATO Science paper, http://books.google.com/books?id=vnq5eBNf5-oC&pg=PA139 James Greyson, BlindSpot Global Think-Tank Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:37:35 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2836#comment-8579 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2836#comment-8579 Remember another article in this website about BLACK SOIL writen by Jiang Gaoming. Is this DARK EARTH the same, or do they have anything in common? Looking forward a win-win solution both for Climate Change and Agriculture. Student i Norge Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:04:03 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2836#comment-8550 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2836#comment-8550 What useful role does the bio-carbon technology still being studied play in the urgent task of reducing carbon-emissions? If it plays no immediate role, perhaps we'd better not set our expectations too high. (Translated by Tian Liang) Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:03:44 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2836#comment-8543 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2836#comment-8543 Because there is no specific explanation on how “the dark earth of the Indians” in Brazil's Amazon basin formed and it is still in its initial laboratory phase, I agree with Simon Shackley, that it will take quite a long time to make this amazing fertiliser more widespread. (translated by Nichole) Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:28:37 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2836#comment-8544 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2836#comment-8544