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Biochar: is it a part of a safe climate future?
Posted in Events by Mark Ogge on September 28th, 2009
Source: Beyond Zero Emissions
Image: BioChar, via UNSW
Guest speaker: Dr Stephen Joseph,
Monday 5th October 2009
Dr Stephen Joseph has extensive experience world wide developing processes and technologies that convert waste into energy and value added products. These include including biodiesel, and other biofuels, oil from algae, biomass combustion, pyrolysis and gasification plant, biochar, plastic wood composite, additives for high strength concretes. He has also developed combustion devices to burn very dilute combustible gases.
He has also been involved in multi-country market research into areas of waste recycling and renewable energy. He has written over 100 books and articles and lectured and trained other engineers throughout the world. He is vice chairman of the international Biochar Initiative and and co-editor with Dr Johannes Lehmann of the first major publication on biochar.