Comments by "Me Here" (@mehere8038) on "Briquettes Made From Coconut Waste Could Reduce Deforestation | World Wide Waste" video.

@Chris-fo8wp I'm an Aussie, so obviously there's no doubt in my (or any Aussie's) mind that climate change is real, after massive fires & then 2 years straight of no sun & record breaking floods with whole cities under 50 feet of water! You're being ridiculous to suggest it's not real when looking at the reality of the world today! I will agree that when you follow the money, you see that the tree planting industry is now bigger than the fossil fuel industry & they are actively trying to prevent the problem being solved, so as to save their industry, but that doesn't mean climate change is somehow not real!
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This is really awesome! It's what needs to be done to all organic waste globally! & if there's no need to use if for fuel, then there's still a need to do this with the waste & then plow it into farmland to retain water & fertiliser, so as to stabilise soils & make them more productive. Would be great added to the soil before planting those trees too, then it can soak up the torrential rains & then release to the tree roots at times of drought. Carbon holds 70 times it's weight in water!
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@Ass_of_Amalek What's REALLY needed is proper carbon pricing if this charcoal is put into the ground in a way that's hard to get back out, which would basically mean leaving it as the powder & spreading it into agricultural soils, or soils where trees are to be grown. If we could get an international price on that, it would change the whole climate change situatoin completely! So by that I mean, you set up a company that takes waste & converts it into 1000 year stable charcoal form, locking that carbon out of the air for 1000 years & then you bury it in the earth's soils, where it absorbs 70 times it's weight in water when it rains & makes that water available to plants when it's dry & you get paid to do it by companies looking to offset carbon emissions, ie they can pay you to do that in the same way they can pay for trees to be planted. It's insane we don't already have this in place, as doing this is FAR more effective than planting trees that hold the carbon only for a few years
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And more & more as ocean levels rise cause of the climate change we are causing in rich countries, small island countries are losing the ability to grow their own food, due to storms causing sea water to cover their cropland & put so much salt into it that it becomes useless for crops - except coconuts. So more & more they are needing to grow coconuts & sell them to the west to be able to buy in the other foods tht they used to grow themselves & no longer can. Please support these communities & please also avoid supporting countries that are using monkeys as slaves to harvest coconuts super cheap & therefore making it impossible for these island nations to compete on price. Choose coconuts from countries without native monkeys if you want an easy way to make sure you do this
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@xxguardian_axx5635 The thing to remember is weight & transport. He's removing the weight from the product, while leaving the bit that burns well & making it into a uniform size for easy bulk packaging & sales. Additionally it burns clean, with all the wood gasses removed in his process. That's important in preventing long term health issues if using indoor cooking with restricted ventilation. There's a reason most in the west buy charcoal products for their BBQ, instead of buying the raw wood, even though raw wood gives the meat a better taste. It's just much more convenient & cheaper & burns with much less smoke. If burning directly works for you, that's great, but to transport to others, charcoal is the way to go. Why don't you test it for yourself & see? Have you ever cooked with charcoal? Give it a try. If you don't want to buy it, get an old tin, punch a small hole into it's lid, then fill with coconut husks & put the lid on & put that onto your fire while cooking something else. By the time you've finished, that tin should be filled with charcoal. Next time you want to cook something, try using your charcoal instead of coconut husks & see how it compares. See how long it burns for & compare that to it's size & weight & what you normally have to use in raw husks to acheive the same & see how smoke free it is too!
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@xxguardian_axx5635 & btw, if you do the coconut charcoal like I said & find it easy to make but don't really have an interest in using it for cooking, then I would recomend keeping on throwing that tin of coconut fibre into your fire each time you light it anyway & then putting that charcoal you are making into your soil for your vegetables, as it will massively increase your soil quality. Soak it in urine or fertiliser first though if you are putting a lot of it into the soil, cause it retains fertiliser as well as water, so if you don't do that inititally, then initially it will actually suck the fertiliser out of your garden. Soak it in urine & it will retain just the fertiliser componants of the urine & provide these to the plants as needed & really boost plant growth, as well as locking the carbon from the coconut waste you turned into bio-char out of the air for 1000 years. If every person on the planet did this with all the waste from their food, we'd be back to pre-industrial atmospheric co2 levels within 5-10 years, without needing to change anything else in our lives
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@b.m.5068 I didn't think you necessarily were & I think there's a few in your thread that are not, but in reality, most who read your thread probably will be, so it's them I'm speaking to with my comment on buying coconuts, as they are the ones that need to change their behaviour if they want to easily help those that they have caused problems for & could very easily help. My other comments on the tin on the fire to make bio-char from coconuts aren't really directed to westerners, if they were, I'd tell them to put the tin on their stovetop instead. That one's for people already using fires & coconut fibres as fuel & also with a little land they can use to grow a few veggies, but not necessarily the money for anything extravagant. I did actually do the process myself, in the west, but ultimately in my situation, it was more efficient for me to switch to buying sustainably sourced charcoal & putting that into my garden instead of trying to make it myself at home, due to the extra fuel I had to use to fuel my bio-char creation (I still use the urine to 'charge" it for use, but most in the west would use purchased animal manure cause the urine would gross them out, even though the urine is actually the better product to use, as it's nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium percentages are much better)
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@MisoElEven hence why sites like kiva are so important, as they offer a genuine option for those of us with money available we can lend, to lend it to these people to break this cycle
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@nickl5658 charcoal is higher heat than wood. That's why it was such a huge industry back before coal, cause a lot of processes required the extra heat that could be achieved from charcoal & not wood or other raw materials
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@bakedbean37 and it's lighter & easier to transport
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@Ass_of_Amalek why would you want to plant forests on the land once you have it functioning well in crop production? That makes no sense at all! I don't get why you are even suggesting that
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@Ass_of_Amalek hence why use bio-char instead of just adding the carbon in compost form, cause the bio-char can't erode off & back into the air. It's for stabilising farmland that we know people aren't going to treat properly to manage erosion! If you're going to do forests, do forests directly, don't spend the extra time making it farmland suitable & then waste that land as forests & need to find new forests to cut down to create farmland! & if you're going from forest or crops to desert, then there's something SERIOUSLY wrong with management! Generally it's semi-arid land that desertifies, because it's already so close to desert in the rainfall it needs & semi-arid lands can NEVER support forests, so if you're working with semi-arid land, you would NEVER attempt to convert them to forests, at least not if you were in any way responsible of knowledgable. I know China have done it with MASSIVE amounts of underground water wasted on the project, but even then they still can't keep their forests alive because the climate's completely wrong for them
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@Ass_of_Amalek no, bio-char doesn't stop soil erosion, but when the bio-char erodes away, it remains in solid form, whether it ends up in the oceans or on another farm, it doesn't break down & return to atmospheric carbon in the way the rest of the soil carbon does when eroded, hence why it's a better option than planting trees, cause those trees die or get cut down & all their carbon goes straight back into the air, so the buying carbon credits to plant them was a scam. Credits should be available for the purchase of bio-char & storing it anywhere that prevents it being able to be used as fuel. Easiest option on that is mixing it into soils. If it was stored underground in dedicated carbon storage, there's too much potential to harvest that at a later date & sell or use as charcoal for energy purposes, spreading it in soils simply prevents that being possible The obvious solution in cleared amazon etc is to plant perennial grasses that are native or near native to the area ie they're well suited to it, even if they weren't the original plants in the area. The perennial grasses develop deep roots & hold the soil in place to prevent erosion & when allowed to grow to maturity before grazing, then allowed to grow to maturity again straight after, they provide as much, or near to as much calorie & nutritional value to ruminants as crops do, but additionally allowing them to be marketed as "grass fed", therefore increasing income & removing the need to clear new land to become farms. If the soil is in bad condition, you'd plant a mix of everything & hope something takes, but if you catch it early, or after it's been stabilised, you can switch to seasonal growing perennial grasses & grow them in such a way that crops can be grown within the same field without removing them, in "pasture cropping". I imagine that wouldn't work on the equator, as there's no wet & dry season to work with, so just efficient grasses will need to be used & grown as perennials, even grasses like alfalfa should work & sorghum can also be grown as a perennial, as can sugarcane to a large extent, needing fresh replanting only once every 5-7 years. No point trying to re-forest & cut down forests at the same time, just need to switch to perennials to stop the erosion & soil quality loss & the charcoal will also help massively in retaining any fertilisers that are applied to the land, especially in the high rain, nutrient leaching environments
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