Weight or Volume for Handling Biochar and Biomass?
Biomass and biochar products are often described in scientific literature by weight but handled and sold in the commercial space by volume.
UC Davis Biochar Database
UC Davis has created a searchable database of biochar characteristics, including sorption characteristics.
Feasibility Assessment of Dairy Biochar as a Value‐Added Potting Mix in Horticulture and Ornamental Gardening
This short paper from Cornell researchers summarizes costs and benefits of converting dairy manure to biochar.
Smoke Into Biochar: Safe Burn Practices for Recovering Biochar for Use in Soil and Compost
The top-down pile burning technique is a cleaner burning fire that produces biochar. This guideline gives step-by-step instructions for making biochar…
A Field Guide to Biochar Water Treatment
This ebook describes a low-cost DIY drinking water treatment system using biochar to remove chemical pollut
Biochar can sequester carbon in soil – so why aren’t farmers using it?
One of the most effective and long-lasting ways farmers can move carbon from the atmosphere into the soil is to use biochar. But if it is so…
Increasing Resilience and Carbon Storage through In-forest Biochar Production
Conservation Corps putting Research into Action
In 2020 the San Juan Islands Conservation District launched the Islands Conservation Corps (ICC) to…
Low-tech flame carbonizers for biochar production: Theory and Applications
Biochar is made by applying heat to biomass in the absence of oxygen.