ABSTRACT
With the increasing problem associated with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, it is an opportune time to begin a global focus on redirecting the net flow and storage of carbon back into the soil, where the sustainable storage capacity is twice that of the atmosphere. Low-temperature slow pyrolysis offers an energetically efficient strategy for bioenergy production, and the land application of biochar reduces greenhouse emissions by suppressing the release of both nitrous oxide and methane gasses from the soil. Biochar programs must be instituted in environments that are suitable, sustainable, and manageable, not simply in terms of the amount of biochar products that can be harvested and processed, but also in terms of the quality of the biochar products, the ecological habitat conditions in which it is considered for application, its contribution to Net Primary Production (NPP), and consequently its role in food and forests biomass generation.
