Thanks to biochar, a mighty soil rich in nutrients and humus has developed in some areas of the Amazon over the centuries. This can also be achieved on European soils. Bruno Glaser, soil biogeochemist and professor at the University of Halle, comes to this…
Pollutants from soil, water and gases can be removed with biochar. According to Weber (Industrielle Anwendungen von Biomassekarbonisaten. Adsorptionsmittel, in: Quicker/Weber 2016, Biokohle), these can be organic pollutants…
The production of metallic raw products is one of the most important industrial sectors. Germany, for example, is one of the world’s leading countries in the production of steel, aluminium, lead, copper and tin. According to the authors Schulten…
The authors Scheub, Pieplow and Schmidt describe how to produce healthy food in their own gardens and at the same time improve the climate in a highly readable book about biochar. It describes step by step how biochar can best be used in the…
Germany is still a laggard when it comes to the approval of biochar. Currently, it is only permitted in the form of charcoal with a carbon content of at least 80 percent. Technology has been available for a long time to produce biochar free of…
If biochar is also composted, it is heavily loaded with nitrogen (nitrate) and promotes plant growth more strongly than uncomposted biochar. This was shown, among other things, in studies in which the effects of biochar were tested in the vineyard…
A global humus build-up of only 1% would be sufficient to reduce the CO2 content of the atmosphere to a safe level. In their book “Die Humusrevolution” (Oekom Verlag 2017), the authors Scheub and Schwarzer present strategies in which biochar…
Two farms use biochar in their stables: one with sheep, vineyards and crops and the other a pig farm. One farm works according to organic guidelines, the other according to conventional methods as part of BG Iseli, a Swiss cantonal company…
The currently most promising possibility to use biochar in agriculture in an economically and ecologically beneficial way is by cascade use in animal husbandry. This is the conclusion reached by the authors Schmidt, Kammann and Gerlach in their book…