20.11.19 | News
It’s going on: The newly founded European Biochar Industry Consortium (EBI) will further serves and expands this news platform. 7 leading companies from Germany, Austria, Sweden and France have joined forces to bundle their…
11.09.18 | Agriculture & Viticulture, News
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…
11.09.18 | Industry, News
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…
11.09.18 | Industry, News
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…
11.09.18 | Garden, News
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…
11.09.18 | Agriculture & Viticulture, News
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…
10.09.18 | Agriculture & Viticulture, News
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…
10.09.18 | Agriculture & Viticulture, News
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…
10.09.18 | Feed Additive, News
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…