We’ve been fortunate this week to have a couple of days without rain to really take care of some of our preparations for our scale of biochar production. Working with the biochar group, we were able to organize our production area. It’s nice to get this task off the mind so now we can continue our research and collect our
feedstock all whilst having a perfect staging area to start making our recipes! We also threw together a little compost pile, as you can see in the back-right of this photo. Our plan is to even throw some biochar into the compost to see if we can’t passively charge it with the decomposing materials.
The idea is to use these pallets to store our certain feedstocks and allow to dry. Once we are able to, we are going to cover our feedstocks in a clear plastic to allow them to dry even faster which will allow us to have a more efficient product. Water in your feedstock can greatly alter the outcome so we are aiming for 15%-30% water within the feedstock to allow for the greatest amount of consistency.