First Name: | Niles |
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Last Name: | Brinton |
Email Address: | niles@charborn.com |
Affiliation | Charborn Biochar |
Subject | Opportunity for Air Quality Improvement and Economic Development |
Comment |
I am happy to see some thought being given to the waste of resources and the climate pollution signified by each and every wildfire and prescribed pile-burn. Our forests may be our single greatest climate liability, since they are growing larger, thicker, and in this drought, drier and more flammable. I help address this problem by developing biochar soil amendments for marketing in to agriculture. I hope the CARB can work with CALFire, CEC, CDFA, and DWR to start a groundbreaking new initiative which promotes the budding biochar industry by upgrading our existing biomass plants to have fewer emissions and to produce good biochar for benefits as a soil amendment. In turn, we could have a revenue source associated with removal of dry, shredded biomass from our forests, reducing the wildfire emissions, improving habitat, and reducing risks to our crucial watersheds. Use of biochar as a soil amendment permanently sequesters this carbon in to the soil, further improving California's climate outlook. We need a new, sustainable biomass economy that provides renewable energy, improved habitat, reduces our wildfire risk, and improves our soils and water quality. |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2015-05-29 16:20:00 |
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