I grew up being taught El Nino isn’t a big deal and it’s just the seasons going through their normal cycle. But with Super El Nino, I finally bothered to read about climate change, and now it’s a rabbit hole I can’t get out of. I calculated my own personal carbon footprint, and I feel disgusted with myself :(
I looked up all the ways to decrease my own footprint- but now I learned that’s not enough, we also need to capture and lockup all the extra carbon that’s in the air now too.
I read about all the ways to do that, and I learned about biochar and it’s relatively the quickest way we have right now that locks carbon up for at least a century if done right.
So I thought about ways to make biochar that’s actually impactful, and of course it has to be a collective action not just the individual.
Now I’m thinking, why don’t cities adopt a biochar bin for their residents just like Stockholm? Is this something I can advocate for my own community?
Ah, right, the drying. Green wood is, like, mostly water. You can season wood outdoors, but it takes many months, so then you have the cost of the space as well. Usually they just use a drying kiln for lumber, in modern practice.
I think about this stuff fairly often, so I was pretty sure about the chemistry. I wasn’t trying to argue, or undermine you, there. Sorry if it came across that way.
No, all good. It’s been a while since I thought about char, and honestly a lot do my stuff was based on ‘what does it do?’