Ghanaian cocoa farmers shun compost and biochar simply because nobody told them
A survey of 150 Ghanaian cocoa farmers finds that none use compost or biochar on their farms, not from unwillingness ...
Tag: pyrolysis
Biochar by the Tonne Is Failing Science: Why Function, Not Mass, Should Set the Dose
A new perspective argues that dosing biochar by mass rather than by delivered functional capacity is the hidden reason soil ...
Supercapacitors Made From Banana Peels and Chicken Bones Could Power the Green Grid
A new review details how agricultural waste, food scraps, and other biomass can be converted into high-performance porous carbon electrodes ...
Fire Science Workhorse Gpyro Gets a 200-Fold Speed Boost
A rebuilt numerical framework makes the open-source pyrolysis code Gpyro up to 200 times faster while preserving its physical results.
Decision Tool Charts a Circular Wastewater Future for a Zimbabwean Mining Town
Researchers in Zimbabwe used the NEREUS decision support tool to design a retrofit that could recover fertilizer, energy and reusable ...
Turning Plastic Waste Into Fuel: Hydrogen Boosts Diesel Engine Performance
Researchers optimized a diesel-waste plastic oil blend enriched with hydrogen across varying compression ratios, finding that efficiency and CO2 gains ...
Three Years of Biochar Left a Fertile Kentucky Soil Mostly Unchanged
A three-year Kentucky field trial shows pine sawdust biochar left a fertile silt loam largely unchanged, raising only labile carbon ...
Slow Heat, More Char: New Study Maps How Ioncell Cellulose II Fibers Turn Into Carbon
Researchers have built the first systematic dataset on how regenerated cellulose II fibers carbonize, confirming classic two-pathway pyrolysis models and ...
Chicken Manure and Onion Peels Turned Into Carbon Capture Materials
Polish researchers show that pyrolysis temperature tunes chicken manure and onion peel biochars for CO2 capture through two distinct mechanisms.
Iron Boosts Heavy-Metal Capture but Undermines CO₂ Uptake in Biochar
An interpretable machine-learning study quantifies how iron loading in biochar improves heavy-metal removal while steadily eroding CO₂ capture capacity, mapping ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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