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David B. Benson  
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 More options Mar 24, 1:24 pm
From: "David B. Benson" <dben...@eecs.wsu.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:24:47 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Mar 24 2008 1:24 pm
Subject: Re: nding Global Warming via Biocoal Sequestration
On Mar 24, 1:25 am, "Don Libby" <dli...@tds.net> wrote:

> ...
> It would seem to me that char produced by pyrolysis in Ontario would serve
> the carbon sequestration purpose at least as well as biocoal produced by
> hydrothermal carbonization in Namibia, no?

No.  Biocoal is, afterall, just high-grade coal.  We know it
will stay unchanged in the ground for millions of years.  That
may not be true of biochar.  It certainly is not when applied
as a soil amendment.  See this survey report:

http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/node/578

The other problem is cost, primarily that of collecting the
biomass and transporting it to the reactor (which might be
hydrothermal carbonization, torrifaction, or pyrolysis).  The
costs in Africa will be substantially less than in Ontario.

Do note that in my original post starting this thread, I
provided several links regarding biocoal.  One is to an
article about a demonstation plant in The Netherlands which
produces 75,000 tonnes per year.  It doesn't appear that batch
versus continuos is an issue.


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