People don't often associate our soils with the main solution to Global Warming, but there is a growing body of evidence that cooking up agricultural WASTE could both give us a little diesel to maybe run farming, and be a "Silver Bullet" for reducing Co2 back down to safer levels. Just farming an area the size of France in this method is reputed to be able to absorb ALL Anthropogenic Greenhouse gases.

Eprida state:
The Eprida model is an international, decentralized, self supporting approach to carbon sequestration. Because making charcoal locks up carbon which can then be added to the soil, it is offers a method whereby agriculture can become a form of carbon sequestration. The machine they have developed for doing the charcoal burning basically takes 10 tons of any woody or plant biomass and turns it into 1 ton of charcoal and 3.2 tons of diesel.

See also "Black is the new Green" at Worldchanging.
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004815.html

And don't forget the ABC Catalyst special with Australian of the Year and Global Warming author, Tim Flannery, at the world's first International Agrichar conference.

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s2012892.htm

Remember that this is vastly different to just storing CO2 underground where it does nobody any good and could potentially be dangerous. Instead we can convert CO2 into useful charcoal that works for us in replenishing the soil. If Agrichar can be scaled up quickly enough, then we have a chance to mitigate the worst of the CO2 emissions until fossil fuel depletion takes over at peak coal in 2025.

Why on earth are we wasting money investigating carbon capture and storage underground, when we could store it in our soils and prepare agriculture for peak oil at the same time?

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