Chris Farmer speaks at the Western North Carolina Mother Earth News Fair on the exciting topic of creating a biochar cookstove that can produce high quality charcoal for inoculation and inclusion in gardens/farms. Learn the basics of how a biochar cookstove works and how you can put one together to begin your own small scale production that can transform wood waste into activated charcoal, a useful material to have on hand and one that can become charged with biology to make a stellar garden amendment.
VIDEO: Biochar Cookstoves with Chris Farmer at Mother Earth News Fair WNC
Chris Farmer speaks at the Western North Carolina Mother Earth News Fair on the exciting topic of creating a biochar cookstove that can produce high quality charcoal for inoculation and inclusion in gardens/farms. Learn the basics of how a biochar cookstove works and how you can put one together to begin your own small scale production that can transform wood waste into activated charcoal, a useful material to have on hand and one that can become charged with biology to make a stellar garden amendment.
Great presentation. Possibly the most complete overview of biochar I've seen. And great info of the Champion Stove, he's very concise about how he explains things!
Excellent demo of high-quality TLUDs and how to make high-quality biochar. Could answer the concerns of many biochar critics. One fact that would be useful to include is that it is not biochar manufacture that removes the carbon from the atmosphere. Trees and other green plants do that! Pyrolysing cellulose makes the carbon recalcitrant (nonreactive), allowing it to stay in soil.
this guy really knocks it out of the park in the last third of the lecture , bravo
I would really like to see Chris use both items. Especially the beer keg.
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could you build a TLUD stove that would fit inside a Rayburn for instance, so you can piggy-back on it to do all your cooking and heating, using gassification then use the Biochar to sequester carbon on a daily basis and improve soils? I fancy using it to sprinkle in a composting loo…
!!! I just ordered one. You guys just saved me a weekend out of my life!
16:53 "Pick up a spray bottle—make sure it's the right one!" Suggestion: add food coloring to the water to make it OBVIOUSLY different than the accelerant.
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Excellent.
I’m planning to buy the same stove . Is there any safety precaution or danger in using this stove
Wood burned in open ground, any white ash excluded when composted becomes a biochar . Am I right ?
Great video!
This video was very informative. Thanks
Very good video. You covered the key points exceptionally.
Don't tell your home owners insurance that you store yards of woodchips in your hot dry attic.
This is fascinating stuff! Thanks for putting on this video. I have one of those stainless kegs and knew it would be useful for something. It’s already got the top cut out for making beer but I don’t want to make that much beer!. My friend bought 2.5 acres in Hawaii and wants to make biochar.
Great presentation. My question: Does the beer keg tlud have to be made from a stainless steel keg or will an aluminum keg work too. or will the aluminum melt or deform?? Melting point of aluminum is about 1200F. If pyrolysis zone its 500-800F.. my thinking is that it should work. Aluminum keg is easier to drill and to find at times.
Chris’s reference to the champion designer : Dr Paul Anderson (Dr. Tlud) is sending me down a rabbit hole filled with biochar and methods to produce it.
I live in an area with abundant feedstocks from urban forestry, hurricanes, and shipping pallets. But Real estate is pricy for having production space.
Because we all share one atmosphere I believe Carbon negative cook stoves need to be in widespread practice in all countries, Not just in the third world. Of course start where renewables are more easily accepted and have big impact because there are limited resources and lack of other options requiring more infrastructure; where adoption is out of necessity. But In ‘first’ world countries adoption must be out of responsibility. I live in a country that is a first world “leader” yet ohh so very waste-full and entrenched in the momentum of the dino fuel err-a (‘error’). We need a gigaton of help to cast off the fossil fuel addiction which is pervasive and entangling.
Nearly 6 years later and this is still the best video explaining TLUD's I've seen so far!
I have watched hundreds of biochar videos and this is one of the best. A question about the keg TLUD that you demonstrated. Is the chimney diameter and length important?
Complete explanation Big Thank you…
To MUCH speak
Where can I buy such biochar cookstoves?
Can we use Fish Amino Acid dissolved in water and pour over the biochar ?.
you can put another retort above the chimney .
Thank God! A site that knows that biochar is what you make from charcoal and not the charcoal itself.
Can I buy one bio Char cook stove and beer barrel from you?
There is a fellow in Oregon who makes biochar and generates electricity.