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Sustainable Green Living from Your Home : Introduction to Biochar Stove

How can become part of the solution to the problem of climate change and global warming from home? Could any home can take part in addressing climate change and global warming is?

Perhaps the questions above bothers you the related problem of climate change lately. Where there's a will, there is a way, so a simple proverb says. So no matter how small what you do, it could still be part of the solution. Here's what you can do:

The geography of Indonesia is a tropical country rich in biodiversity. Indonesia also has an important role in maintaining the stability of the global climate as the world's lungs. The forest needs to be maintained for the preservation of nature with the majority can be exploited for the benefit of mankind wisely. Indonesian population also with the majority live in rural areas on either side a lot of overgrown plants. 
 
Efforts utilization of forest products, agriculture and plantation always produce abundant amounts of biomass waste. Waste if unpunished, will pollute the environment in the form of decomposition which produces methane and CO2 which menyebabkab earth getting warmer. Potentially dangerous methane is 21 times compared to CO2. Data from the Energy and Mineral Resources of Indonesia mentioned the potential of biomass in Indonesia amounted to 49.8 GW, but that has been utilized only about 0.4% or 213 MW.

On the other hand, as population growth continues to increase the energy needs of the growing energy needs. Fossil energy which only adds to the carbon in the atmosphere (carbon positive), certainly not advisable to avoid climate change and global warming. And On other side also the availability of fossil fuels continues to thin out, even since 2004, Indonesia has become a net importer of crude oil. The phenomenon of using gas in a number of regions turned out to cause fear of danger from these products susceptible to explode.
 

While biomass waste around you, is a potential raw material to become part of greenhouse gas mitigation. But how? Let me explain to you.


Biomass waste is potentially a proven energy content will issue a number of heat when burned. But if you just plain burnt then it is a common thing, to take the heat. Your role is not much different from most people. Moreover, current conditions for burning biomass stoves in Indonesia or generally in developing countries have very low efficiency. That means more heat is lost, a waste of energy consumption and gas emissions dump is not environmentally friendly because of the heavy smoke visible and have dangeroin the stifling breath and make a painful eye. Chemical analysis would indicate conditions outside the allowable emission limits. In addition, conditions in the kitchen for cooking stoves that use this type will become dirty by the scattered ashes and soot.

That means the need to innovate to improve the situation. Your role to save the climate change also needs to be improved. Innovation is by biochar stove.

What is biochar stove?

Biochar stove, not like most stoves on the market, biochar stove using biomass waste fuel through pyrolysis process to produce heat energy and biochar as a by-product.
What is pyrolysis and why using the pyrolysis process?

Pyrolysis is the process of decomposing a material such as biomass using heat with little or no oxygen at all. Only by using this pyrolysis process it will produce biochar.

Why should produce biochar?

Because biochar has a very important role as a GHG mitigation tools today and improve soil quality (soil amendment) that would increase crop productivity. 

Operational biochar stove is also easy and simple, but it is much better heat efficiency. It takes only 1/5-1/3 of the traditional stove fuel. Dump gas emissions are also environmentally friendly, so you will not be shortness of breath or pain in the eyes due to clouds of smoke. Chemical analysis also showed that emissions allowed under the standards so that it is in line with the program to avoid indoor pollution.

And no less important is generated. With the ability to hold water and plant nutrients from leaching, biochar helps plant productivity. Improved soil quality, reduced fertilizer requirements and the crop yields increase. Biochar also will sequester carbon in the atmosphere so that the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere decreases, the earth would be cooler.

The high concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere indeed needs to be reduced. While other strategies with fossil fuel substitution with a variety of renewable fuels (carbon neutral strategy), then the biochar has a role to absorb the existing carbon in the atmosphere to some degree. The estimated if all the world's biomass waste is used as biochar, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will decrease about 12% or as preindustrial atmospheric conditions.

So you can be actively and continuously be a part of the solution. Our community empowerment programs  will make networking and partnering with you with the principle of mutual benefit. So, stay tune!