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The big question remains biochar’s effectiveness in slowing or reversing global warming, and that can only be answered by further research and real-world experiments — something the Chinese, at least, seem to understand. After being briefed on biochar in 2010, China’s national leadership made biochar production part of the state Clean Energy program in 2011, according to Genxing Pan of Nanjing Agricultural University. Biochar research is currently being supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Rural Economic Commission, among other entities. The U.S. government, by contrast, is winding down its biochar research. Congress has cut the Agricultural Research Service’s budget by 12 percent since 2010, said ARS’s Fireovid. We’ve closed at least ten laboratories in the last three years, he added. The long-term studies we think we need to do on biochar, we just can’t do. We lack the funds. e360.yale.edu/feature/as_uses_of_biochar_expand_climate_benefits_still_uncertain/2730/
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 19:03:55 +0000

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