Because soils in and of themselves are generally productive. Aerating soils (tilling) boosts the microbial community, making it consume organic matter in the soil. Biochar is highly stable, so it wouldn’t be consumed, but instead the existing organic matter, which acts as the massive pool nutrients would then be consumed. So what you’d see, is a priming effect at least a few years, followed by a drop in soil productivity.

Biochar is useful as a soil amendment in the right conditions, but its effect is really situational and highly dependent on cooking temperatures and feedstock. I used stuff cooked around 380C in an attempt to allow for some of the feedstock’s more available carbon forms to be accessible to microbes. It didn’t really work like that, but I ended up with an N boost in my soils, which we suspected was due to proving more microbial habitat (due to char surface area).

It’s also really good at catching and holding onto leaching metals, and nitrogen too, in the right conditions

Hey, I can answer this one. I did my M.Sc on amending soils with biochar.

I’m not sure what Stockholm is doing, though.

To get good recovery of biochar, you need a pretty controlled environment. It’s also energy intensive to make; you need a heat source that’s not going to produce CO2, ideally, and cut into the benefit that you’d get by sequestering carbon in the first place. Like if it takes 1 ton of waste wood fuel to make 1 ton of biochar, it’s pretty much a wash. You could use green energy I suppose, like it you had a hydro grid set up to fire whatever furnace you’re cooking the stuff in, but that’s not always available or scalable (in the sense you can do it everywhere).

You CAN make biochar crudely, and we’ve been doing so for centuries, but the rub is that your recovery quickly drops and decreases in recovery are increases in CO2 produced. I was toying with this idea to manage non-merchantable timber on mines, and using the char as a soil amendment.

Suppose everything DOES work the way we want, though. Good recovery, cheap energy, people onboard. We now have a mountain of char and no place to put it. You could go underground mines). Stockpiling it aboveground would a nightmare and massive fire hazard… Etc. Etc.

I like using char to store carbon and it’ll stay for a long time, but you can’t just capture it at the source like you can with other forms of carbon capture and storage. Those other methods don’t work well either… At least with char you have a solid to manage rather than stuffing gas underground and hoping the earth doesn’t fart.

Like a lot of things, char use like you envision is ‘we would if we could but we can’t so we wont’.

If you were penned in all day, bored stiff, I guarantee you would fuck with people every chance you got, too

Hey, thanks I learned something (I think). Computer shit isn’t my area of nerdery, but from what I gather AI images gets stamped with invisible water marks and you can detect these with software (rather than AI) if that software knows what the watermark is (which is kept secret by the AI provider)

I tried but it didn’t work. Kept getting hung up when I tired to sign in.

Also doesn’t using AI to detect AI defeat the purpose of screening for AI?

Is it though? It looks like shop to me. Look at the neck/body connection

And dumping a bunch of sulphur dioxide probably would do the opposite of help that

everyone on Lemmy proceeds to take it seriously, like they do with all memes

Basically, the mineral components in the soil - whatever rock the soil particles came from - undergo chemical and physical degradation, releasing micro nutrients bound within them.

Potassium is a good example even though it’s a macro nutrient - the mechanism is the same for the most part

Rock is the slowest but largest pool of nutrients like K. With K in particular, clays can bind it and desorb it depending on clay type and hydration status. That K is generally more available to the plants.

Think of it this way: you have a mountain with diamonds in it, and a pick axe. That’s your mineral K. You can chip away and get more diamonds but it’s hard to do so and time consuming.

There’s also a smaller pile of diamonds that you can just sell to people. That’s your available K.

Then there is diamonds you are getting polished, that can later be sold. That’s your clays

https://nutrien-ekonomics.com/news/how-can-the-nature-of-clays-in-your-soil-affect-plant-available-potassium/

Micronutrient pools are largely controlled by mineral weathering. Here, they’ve depleted these pools by intensive agriculture. The pools are slow to replenish, which is why we are pinched now with less nutrition in vegetables

Of fucking course they did. And they did in the US and they are doing so in Canada. If you wanted to destabilize your enemies and all you really had to do was get a bunch of bots and people (paid, or coerced) to play on pre-existing dissent and fear, why the fuck wouldn’t you? Sure a lot easier and less traceable than shooting them. Best part is once you feed it enough, it turns into a self sustaining organism, and you can relax in your wing chair by the fire, vodka in hand, and watch any set of outcomes (all of which benefit you) play out.

Then, when your enemy is weakened, you gobble up the bite sized pieces you can.

It’s a shitpost, sir.

chocolate all over face, slurring from insanely high blood sugar I’ll tell you when I’ve had enough

Get out of here with your logic; this is a shitpost

Yeah? Well I would rather not have a Jack off sandwich

Bro is still holding the marriage together like the tattered tent

Wait, we are supposed to write them?

I read some comments elsewhere that they think it was hacked by a botnet. The idea being that it’s easy to block a one source during a DDoS attack, but much harder when its coming from hundreds of fucking coffee machines. lol.

I did my M.Sc there, and lived there for 3 years, so i am allowed to shit on the province too lol.

It’s pretty in its own right, and the small towns can have their own charm, but it’s not for everyone.

I had 3 beagles (at once!) growing up. Every Tuesday and every other weekend, my dad and my absolute wicked stepmother would get custody of me and my brother. She had two boys as well which were younger

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Bedlam