Improve your soil by making biochar in the ground. DIY biochar enhances nutrient availability and also enables soil to retain nutrients longer. Last year, I committed one of the great sins of ...

It might be considered an odd retirement hobby, but Greg Porteous spends his spare time making biochar. Biochar is a black, charcoal-like substance created by applying high heat to organic ...

To move the technology forward, scientists at Stanford are trying to come up with more accurate measurements, for how much ...

The Eastern Washington company takes crop and forestry wastes, applies a patented technology to convert the organic debris into biochar ... plot its own growth. “Making sure that the ...

The company invested millions of dollars to receive up to 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits through the production of burnt organic material, or biochar, which offsets emissions the ...

At the same time, this process reduces the presence of organic compounds and heavy metals in the biochar, making it safer and more useful," said Vali. The project shows that the pyrolysis and ...

Minneapolis this spring will begin construction on a city-owned biochar facility — a furnace that turns wood scraps into a ...

In the simplest of terms, you can think about it as just like supercharged charcoal,” Cook County Highway Department Engineer ...