Baja Rob's Biochar Log

Climate change, habitat destruction, overexploitation of resources--these trends threaten the future of civilization and global biodiversity. Awareness is growing and our leaders are gradually responding. Future generations will look back at our times and the actions we took. I believe that Biochar is among the handful of "keystone technologies" that will truly make a difference.

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Big Kiln Burn

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Our large kiln, while not particularly grand by commercial standards, is plenty big enough. At 2M tall and 1.6M diameter, the kiln basket ha...
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My TLUD's Bigger 'n Yours

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The kiln load (Gmelina mill scrap) must get up to around 280C before it will produce enough combustible gas to "kick over" into py...
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Monday, June 7, 2010

Nod to Nik

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Nikolaus Foidl, designer of the Costa Rica Biochar Project's large kiln, is a brilliant scientist & engineer with wide-ranging intel...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

The Big Chill, and Fire!

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After making biochar in our kiln, we allow the retort drum to cool to ambient temperature, for ease of handling and to avoid the risk of the...

Dr. TLUD and the Coffee Caper

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A couple weeks ago I took a break from my kiln work on the Osa to visit a very different sort of biochar undertaking in the coffee country o...
Saturday, May 15, 2010

Rocket Retort Rocks!

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Yesterday was the christening of my new kiln, the Rocket Retort, a culmination of many months of research, design, contemplation; and a rece...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

What is Terra Preta?

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Biochar is widely associated with Terra Preta , the famously fertile and persistent anthropogenic "black soils" of Amazonia. I had...
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