Dear Chris
Answer to your 1st question. "Do you know of any issues using biochar in a temperate climate"
Firstly you need to know that there is no issue that can not be overcome.
Biochar is such a young industry and it is broken into a many parts by anally retentive prostitute scientists hell bent on getting their next paycheck and who cares what the outcome is.
Step back and see the truth. Quiet simply the ancient amazon Indians created Terra pretta a soil that was fertile. Today no scientist has come anywhere close.
Simple answer is todays scientists are missing one variable and that is TIME. In their lust for the Dollar they are making shit up that simply did not exist in the amazon.
Cases in point Temperature and Stainless steal retorts that make energy, Gas and Biochar. Wake up world anything scientist touch turns to shit. They can't even agree on simple things like how the earth was made or how old it is or who made the pyramids and with what.
So take back your power as an inquisitive mind and go out an experiment. Just because terra pretta was found in the amazon does not make it the perfect thing for the entire world it is.
As a caretaker of the world your charged with trying to help nature clean up after mans greedy raping of the planet seas and atmosphere. Let me tell you of Terra Pretta Australis Yes black earth found in Australia as a legacy of aboriginals to our continent Australia. Google it mate.
So short answer is not enough good trials have been performed by people wise enough to see all realms to make a statement saying biochar does no work in temperate zones.
So now that you can totally disregard science and commercial greed propaganda for the thorn in humanities side they are. You are free to experiment to a child a visual demonstration is far better than data sets required by scientists. Teach the children in a fun and wholesome way and they will be able to carry on the work as they grow.
here is an exerpt -- Adriana Downie, Asia Pacific Biochar Conference 2009. Discovering Terra Preta Australis: Rethinking temperate soils capacity to sequester carbon. Adriana ...
Second Question "Are there issues trying to use printers' mix (paper waste that includes binding glue, lamination, aqueous and uv coatings, packing tape, and inks and toners from printed material)?
Again a perspective view is needed let me punch one out for you.
You and your Mind/heart/body + Biochar Idea + waste left over from your company is probably less damaging to the environment than 2 feedlot cows.
Hows that for perspective ? Your demonstrating in your writing that you care about the environment and that your willing to enquire into a better way to reuse your waste this my brother is millenniums ahead of most of the people on earth. Sure you will want to be careful inhaling those nasties as they could have sudden effects like Death. The biochar you will create will offset the pollution you cause and in the scheme of things this is not much.
Scientist LIE they CHEAT they steal and they can be seen in time as the true terrorists to Nature. They put out such bullshit peer reviewed by gutless ball less sycophants who want to stay in the in-crowd so they will review this mindless shit and pass it with flying colors the whole system is corrupt. Keeping people like us not wanting to heal the earth with such a technology because we care about what people think of us.
Fire will reduce most things to its base elements and on this planet that is carbon. With a little thinking for ones self you can come up with ways of dealing directly with the pollution.
I am not aware of a system that could remove all the pollution from an exhaust of a retort that does not cost a lot of money. for now as a grass roots biochar maker you have to be content with offset.
Off set = Pollution you cause is one total and the environmentally good things you do is another total you want your Good to out weigh your bad by a factor of 10* 10* is my feeling rule you should leave the planet better than you found it by 10. Goodness that lasts 10 generations and teach 10 people to feel the same way. This is true offset.
Put your char in gardens and country where little care is being taken like a school yard or medium strips or even ninja your charcoal to the Dump that will help a lot.
Then grow trees and plants that last a long time filtering the air with their mechanisms.
Put some money you saved from waste disposal into education programs in local schools
lobby your local governments to change their ways with pollution
drop teabags of biochar into the polluted waterways to extract the toxins then put the char in the forest.
give away all your ideas you have created to everyone for free this will help others create better units from your start point.
Eat better foods full of nutrition so you have the brain capacity to really evolve and spread the truth.
most of all think for yourself and remember you are not a slave and no one can get in-between you and mother nature so do not let them.
If you want to send me a private email I can share with you some things that will help you.
Charmaster Dolph Cooke
Biochar Project
