I didn't have time to get to this on release, but the anticipation certainly gave me huge dopamine. Thanks for doing this series, sir. Thanks, Francesco for sharing your knowledge.
Brilliant conversation. Thanks. We use biochar to clean our well water and in the garden. Some say that mixing the charcoal with plaster and applying it in the house reduces EMF transmission. Haven't tested the last one.
All of your guests comment on your fantastic questions. I agree with them and I love how much more information you pry from them with your nuanced takes. love the podcast!
LOTS of great info Diego - gracias... loving this series. You’ll soon have us so smart we won’t know what to do with all our knowledge LOL... except build great soil. Francesco’s comments on not needing to pulverize the char was very helpful. I live in northern Ontario and get that annual freeze/thaw. I often wondered if the char would break itself down with the frost inside. Hey all you chariots... your thoughts please on what I’m doing now... I build a fire in my wood stove to heat my workshop, and after a couple hours there’s only extremely hot embers. I shovel them out into a bucket and outside it goes (I’m in snow country) and I place a piece of metal on top to cut off air and this seems to quench the burning pretty quickly. The product looks and behaves like what I see as “good” char on other videos. Am I fooling myself, or do you think this a viable source of char. It all goes into my soon-to-be Johnson-Su bioreactor come spring. Will pre-inoculate with worm casting ‘tea’.over winter. Put some char and a bit of water in a barrel and as it freezes, continue to add layers. Your thoughts are valued. Thank you.
Diego. Did you start with water PH of 7 neutral, or RO WATER, distilled water? Do you think that would change the result? I've quenched char in water and let it set for a few day in the water, and when I checked the PH of the water it was in the 4's.
It does what it says, but is it better than composting or mulching with the unburnt material? I have my doubts. Especially considering the price. In my area it isn't available, and I don't think it's very feasible to do yourself. Professional charcoal plants waste less material during the pyrolysis and they're also able to capture and use the gas. And if you buy this professional charcoal it is not easy to crush by hand, you need a machine.
I like this method... so many different Ideas out there. This one doesn’t use/waste would on an external fire. It functions more like the open top kilns ua-cam.com/video/tR6MslcJayk/v-deo.html Hope the link works.
I didn't have time to get to this on release, but the anticipation certainly gave me huge dopamine. Thanks for doing this series, sir. Thanks, Francesco for sharing your knowledge.
Brilliant conversation. Thanks. We use biochar to clean our well water and in the garden. Some say that mixing the charcoal with plaster and applying it in the house reduces EMF transmission. Haven't tested the last one.
Keep them coming 👍👍👍👍
All of your guests comment on your fantastic questions. I agree with them and I love how much more information you pry from them with your nuanced takes. love the podcast!
Thank you Diego for the interview Very Interesting
Very informative one
Waiting for John Kempf as a guest
LOTS of great info Diego - gracias... loving this series. You’ll soon have us so smart we won’t know what to do with all our knowledge LOL... except build great soil. Francesco’s comments on not needing to pulverize the char was very helpful. I live in northern Ontario and get that annual freeze/thaw. I often wondered if the char would break itself down with the frost inside.
Hey all you chariots... your thoughts please on what I’m doing now... I build a fire in my wood stove to heat my workshop, and after a couple hours there’s only extremely hot embers. I shovel them out into a bucket and outside it goes (I’m in snow country) and I place a piece of metal on top to cut off air and this seems to quench the burning pretty quickly. The product looks and behaves like what I see as “good” char on other videos. Am I fooling myself, or do you think this a viable source of char. It all goes into my soon-to-be Johnson-Su bioreactor come spring. Will pre-inoculate with worm casting ‘tea’.over winter. Put some char and a bit of water in a barrel and as it freezes, continue to add layers. Your thoughts are valued. Thank you.
Just subscribed, cool content
How long is the inoculation period?
Diego. Did you start with water PH of 7 neutral, or RO WATER, distilled water? Do you think that would change the result? I've quenched char in water and let it set for a few day in the water, and when I checked the PH of the water it was in the 4's.
It does what it says, but is it better than composting or mulching with the unburnt material? I have my doubts. Especially considering the price.
In my area it isn't available, and I don't think it's very feasible to do yourself. Professional charcoal plants waste less material during the pyrolysis and they're also able to capture and use the gas. And if you buy this professional charcoal it is not easy to crush by hand, you need a machine.
Biochar isn't charcoal and its not that hard to make. There are plenty of UA-cam videos out there on how to make it
I like this method... so many different Ideas out there. This one doesn’t use/waste would on an external fire. It functions more like the open top kilns ua-cam.com/video/tR6MslcJayk/v-deo.html Hope the link works.