ecosophia | Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 64

As we proceed through the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselesness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries.

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.

3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.

With that said, the floor is open for discussion.

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Yeah, there are a lot of ways to make it, but it all boils down to this basically: you need to control the oxygen levels during the burn. The idea stemmed from the discovery of Terra Preta, which was made across the Amazon in as low tech a way as you can imagine. Now there are high tech retorts that will pump the stuff out. My sense is the feedstock doesn’t really matter. As long as it has carbon, you are good. (Note to mafiosos trying to get rid of bodies: invest in biochar production facilities!).

Once it’s made, mix with compost to activate. The gist of it is that biochar is covered in porous surface area, which microbes and mycelia love to inhabit. Much like ocean reserves, which pump fish out into the surrounding ocean, biochar does the same for soil. It’s also a fantastic sponge. It will retain water in the soil for longer, after nearby soil has dried out.

It really is a miraculous, low-tech technique. I have yet to see a downside. Of note: it takes a while being in the soil before the flywheel gets going. Maybe a couple years before you really see the effects. Also, biochar converts have the same vibe as crypto converts, so beware :)

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OTOH, if being persnickety about oxygen levels makes it complicated enough that you won't get around to actually doing it... then it doesn't work!

I think at least some of that "optimizing" literature comes down to marketing for companies that manufacture the stuff. What my actual gardening-in-sand-in-the-humid-subtropics experience has been is, *any* charcoal can be used to improve sandy soil. And the charcoal I can make from fallen branches I gather myself for free and burn in a trench is the charcoal I can afford and will actually use, which makes it the best biochar... even if some fancy-schmancy charcoal retort would make better-quality charcoal. It's not like if you do it wrong, it'll be *bad* for soil ;) Like... maybe possibly not-quite-as-good. That's all.

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