BAMBOO BIOCHAR
New Video
Hi my dear friends,
keeping in touch again; I had various problems that had to be solved and was out of the chat (at least no so frequent has before). I had a large list of items on my office and in the farm. My wife gave a huge list of chores (haven´t fiiished yet).
I found a very interesting new video on the subject. Hope you like it, very simple and explicit.
Abner
This the video:
I had a galvanised washtub full of biochar standing by my garden for a few weeks. When I carried it there it was very light but then it rained - a lot - and the char soaked up the moisture and yesterday I was going to spread it on the garden before fall tilling and even though it looked dry I could hardly lift the tub. One of the benefits of biochar I read is the ability to hold moisture (and nutrients). Looks like the moisture holding part is true!
I was picking up out between the chicken coop and the garden yesterday where I last made charcoal. There was a sheet of plywood on the ground covered in charcoal. It was saturated and froze solid. Temps in the sun in mid 30s. I found that scraping it with a square shovel each time I walked by was a easy dust free way to size it.
It will now go the in the chicken coop, compost pile next then on into the garden.
Hi Don, that´s a fact. What we do is, that we make biochar in dry we do not spay water to cool or stop de pirolisis (see our video) it comes out dry. Than we soak it in a mixture of worm liquid, cow manure and “rock flower” (pulverized rocks) and molases. It sucks it all over night and next day we drain and put it in sealed bags (to use later). A small cup per normal small plants or a big cup for tomatoes and the results are fabulous. I´ll try to upload de link. I´m having trouble with my internet.
This is how our biochar comes out the next day
Hi every body, found this new and interesting video to keep the chat alive. Hope you like it, I did.
Thanks for the link…
The video highlights what a great restoratative plant is bamboo, and biochar from it.
We must give credit to our creator for designing such wonderful things for our benefit.
There is no better way to show our appreciation than to learn to use it effectively.
Sadly this lady if a proponent of the large scale, throw money at the problem philosophy.
It has been well established that the earth will clean and repair itself IF we stop polluting, and excessive harvesting. Most of the excessive use is caused by this greedy commercializing of everything. Small scale individual use of the things of nature are easily supported.
End Of Rant.
The only thing she forgets is that Carbon from the bamboo is excellent as fossil fuel replacement.
Replace fossil fuels by any wood you grow and you’l save the world…
DOW or driving on wood, is the only known fuel usage that actually takes carbon pollution from the air and subsequently being used as fuel.
As solar panel vehicles are running on solar energy, then woodgas vehicles are running on air pollution.
Koen,
when you say "…taking Carbon pollution from the air… are you meaning because the trees and bamboo in your case are absorbing the CO2 to make our biomass?
Speaking of bamboo, I have been unable to find a bamboo that would grow in my climate as we discussed in the car.
Hi Bill,
Yes, three’s and bamboo grow from the Co2 in the air. They adsorb the Co2 and release Oxygen back, process called “photosynthesis”
I did find this on google, might point you to some species usefull at your place: http://www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2017/6/26/north-americas-native-bamboos
or this one:
I sure hope to come over soon again and enjoy your company once more. Hopefully a prolonged period and not just 3 days cramped together with all stuff to do…
The Thai Honey is going to be in postal office beginning next week, hope you like it.
Okay, I had to clarify because the way it was written, your words could be interpreted as though by running a gasifier, the gasifier is getting rid of CO2 rather than the tree.
I am looking forward to the honey. Thank you Koen.
100% agreed Koen. I planted what we call “dwarf bamboo”, 3 plants two years ago and it grew more than what I wanted, I´ll post some pictures and a video I´m editing this weekend. I´m having trouble because it´s my first edited complex video.
Good evening everybody! Finally THE BEAST has taken life and roared. We thiink it was amazing and a very good learning experience. Took us two years but finally made it. Hope you enjoy, …WE DID!
Abner,
Congratulations and well done!
Music at 8 minutes into video!
Abner,
Felicidades y bien hecho!
¡Música a los 8 minutos de video! 
Que Bueno amigo.! Muy Bien!. Carbon de madera y bamboo tambien, no? Que va hacer ustd con su carbon ahora? Qieres usar por motor o por otra cosa? O es todo para bio-char por el jardin?
Hello Billy,
gracias por escribir en español.
By now we are using it for agriculture mixed with worm humus and compost; we also make a special one for human use (other rules); dew to the actual crisis in my country (no gas, no gasoline, no gasoil, no power, no food, no medicines, etc… I´m going to build a WK-AL Frick´s style to put on my trailer and use it where needed. That´s the intention. I have the materials, now its just a matter of time.
Hi Abner, Since you now have charcoal, why not use it in a simple charcoal gasifier to power a generator or gasoline motor for other uses? It is much easier to build a charcoal gasifier than a wood gasifier. In making your charcoal, there was a lot of wood burned up to bring your oven up to heat. This is one of the drawbacks of the indirect method of making charcoal. It would be interesting to compare the wood consumption in producing charcoal in a direct versus indirect method. Just curious, has anyone out there computed the total amount of wood they use in making charcoal using the indirect method? I’ve gotten around 18% by weight using the direct method.
Just curious.
Gary in PA
Hi Gary,
Kiln, direct fire around 17%,
The barrel system, indirect heat, 30 to 35%
I also use waste wood and plastic waste to use as fuel for making the charcoal…
