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Broad Range of Searchable Biochar Information

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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.
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UC Davis Biochar Database

UC Davis has created a searchable database of biochar characteristics, including sorption characteristics.
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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. 
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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…
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A Field Guide to Biochar Water Treatment

This ebook describes a low-cost DIY drinking water treatment system using biochar to remove chemical pollut
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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…
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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…
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Low-tech flame carbonizers for biochar production: Theory and Applications

Biochar is made by applying heat to biomass in the absence of oxygen.