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Washington State University Extension programs and employment are available to all without discrimination.
December 2009 Volume 7, No.
4
Sustaining the Pacific Northwest
Food, Farm, & Natural Resource Systems
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In This Issue
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Biochar and Pyrolysis: Renewable Soil Carbon
and Energy
David Granatstein & Chad Kruger, WSU Center for
Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Wenatchee,
WA; Manuel Garcia-Perez, WSU Biosystems
Engineering, Pullman, WA; Hal Collins, USDA-ARS,
Prosser, WA; Jonathan Yoder & Suzette Galinato,
WSU School of Economic Sciences, Pullman, WA
What is biochar?
Biochar is a carbonaceous product made from the pyrolysis
of organic materials (usually lignocellulosic, or woody,
materials).
Essentially a charcoal material, biochar is being
studied for its application to soil.
It gained recent notoriety
due to studies of Amazonian black earth (Terra Preta) soils
that have si
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