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Biochar is Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Biochar is part of our Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge that is only coming to light with the commercialization by corporations that are spreading this process commercially. The process of creating black earth is more than 5000 years old. Indigenous populations globally, including many tribal nations have continued to develop their own practices and utilize them in supporting systems and creating black earth. This example of pragmatic knowledge transfer through ancient trade routes spans the globe.
Indigenous farmers and gardeners, for example, are still using practices today via the homemade methods they were taught by their ancestors. Communities are also using these methods to enhance their soils. The advanced techniques employed today communities to improve the soil's ability to hold moisture and nutrients for the benefit of plants and to enhance crop yields.
“Pyrolysis, a process in which biomass is heated in an oxygen-deprived environment to break down into simpler substances.” biochar is produced by pyrolysis, a process in which biomass is heated in an oxygen-deprived environment to break down into simpler substances. There are two types of pyrolysis: fast and slow. Fast pyrolysis uses moderate to high temperatures and rapid heating of wood chips while slow pyrolysis is characterized by gradual heating over a wide range of temperatures to produces its biochar. Biochar Now uses slow pyrolysis to permit various wood sizes, moistures and nature’s anomalies to be slowly processed into consistent, high quality biochar.
Remediation
Biochar offers an extremely cost-effective solution to bind toxins and prevent their leaching into surface and ground water. And, as a bonus, the once sterile soil can now support plant growth.
By sequestering the heavy metals in the soil surrounding abandoned mines, biochar prevents these contaminants from leaching into local water supplies. Secondarily, biochar quickly facilitates the reestablishment of vegetation on this typically sterile ground with improved soil fertility and reduced erosion. Moreover, biochar can accomplish mine reclamation quickly and at a mere fraction of the cost of removing tailings to hazardous waste landfills.
“Hydrocarbons and VOCs are captured and sequestered in the biochar.”
Biochar is being used by the oil and natural gas industries as an economical method of complying with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) air and water quality regulations.
To comply during drilling operations, Biochar is applied to the soil in oil and gas production areas to decontaminate the soil. In so doing, hydrocarbons and VOCs are captured and sequestered in our biochar and broke down to nontoxic levels by embedded microbes.
This process has been approved for many projects across the U.S. including in Texas by the Texas Railroad Commission.
Biochar filtration process is used to purify producer water from wells. Our biochar removes pollutants allowing for the discharge of clean water