A plant to produce biochar - a form of charcoal - from green waste has been given the go-ahead. The proposal for Ludlow Business Park, off Coder Road, was unanimously approved by a Shropshire Council ...

A plan to set up a plant to produce biochar – a form of charcoal – from green waste has been recommended for approval. Members of a Shropshire Council planning committee will consider the ...

To move the technology forward, scientists at Stanford are trying to come up with more accurate measurements, for how much greenhouse gas is really being stored and how long the biochar lasts.

Consequently, the government has designated biochar as a core technology area for carbon neutrality in the livestock sector and plans to expand the use of biochar and improve manure management in ...

After three public meetings of the Fire Safety Advisory Committee (FSAC), during which refinement and discussion occurred, the FSAC recommended that Council consider a pilot program for the ...

The biochar stores carbon, preventing its rapid release back into the atmosphere. The char can be used in many ways, from a soil fertilizer to a water filtration agent. The plan is to sell it by ...

Researcher Dipita Ghosh says having a kiln on wheels lets them take it to where the waste is. (Submitted by Dipita Ghosh) She's found that pyrolysis not only reduces that fuel, but once biochar is ...

Ghosh says that open kilns such as the CharBoss or Porteous's backyard setup aren't perfect at creating biochar, as the best biochar is made when you're able to limit the oxygen. But she says it's ...