Freestone Resources Inc. (fka FSNR)

[JayDiamond]

People can start connecting the dots now. See below excerpt
from: http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/1298/pyrolysis-char-rejuvenates-tired-soils
A Hot Product
Dynamotive has been producing bio-oil and char for several years in Canada, says Desmond Radlein, the company's chief scientist. The company uses waste wood from the timber industry as a feedstock. Radlein views the bio-oil as the primary product and the char as a secondary product. "If you pyrolyze wood under fast pyrolysis conditions you might get 70 percent of a liquid as a product with some gas and some char as a byproduct," he says. "Fast pyrolysis is a fairly well established technology. Several people are practicing it and trying to commercialize it. The basic idea is to make a liquid fuel. It isn't a high-grade fuel. You can't burn it in your car but you can burn it in boilers and gas turbines."

Dynamotive began its work on fast pyrolysis at about the same time terra preta soils became a hot research topic. "It turns out that the conditions under which the char is made under pyrolysis seem also to be the optimal conditions to making a good char for soil amendment purposes," Radlein says. "Char is a secondary product, but from that perspective, one is always looking to see what one can do with it."

There are several uses for pyrolysis char, Radlein says. It can be converted into activated carbon. Char can be compressed into charcoal briquettes or used to make gunpowder. "The activated carbon market is very big," Radlein says. "It is used for water treatment among other things. But (agricultural uses) would be a potentially very big market."