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Kurt A. Spokas

Researcher

Aug 23, 2026

1:09
Can you talk about the variability of biochar a- and how all biochar isn't equal, and if you say biochar, it's saying food, when food is meat, it's dairy, and it's fruit?
1:24
So the best analogy that I use when I'm talking to people about biochar is it's very similar to receiving a recipe and an ingredients for baking a cake.
1:34
Everyone would have the exact same ingredients.
1:37
They're following the directions exactly of the mixing time, the time it takes to bake at a certain temperature, but everyone's cake wouldn't taste the same.
1:47
There's just little nuances involved in the cooking process that results and magnifies itself in different tastes and different textures of the final cooked or baked product.
1:59
This is very similar and analogous to biochar.
2:02
Even though we have biochars that are created under the exact same conditions, there are other factors that go into the final product, just like in the baking analogy.
6:44
I think I'd look at it and say, "Hey, that's just a piece of carbon with some other materials in it." H- how is it cha- what's changing on it just sitting there? When it's oxidizing or other things are happening to it, just being exposed to the air, chemically, physically, w- what's different?

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