A chocolate maker and music promoter aim to create a £1bn biochar industry, in a controversial effort to fight climate change. In a patch of woodland on the outskirts of Hastings, on the English south coast, a group of men huddle around a brick laboratory as smoke curls from its two chimneys. The men are trying, with some chemical trickery, to bring a lucrative piece of South America to Sussex, to spark what they believe could be a £1bn industry in Britain. The business is controversial. Some maintain it should be outlawed, and others say that only full-scale legalisation would control the risks. Until the fuss dies down, the men have decided to bury the powder they make in a nearby field. Craig Sams, a millionaire chocolate maker, and Dan Morrell, a former music promoter and entrepreneur, are producing charcoal, and their aim is to get rich by selling it to tackle global warming.
Carbon Soil
A major component of the terrestrial biosphere pool in the carbon cycle. It is formed from the decomposition of living organisms whcih themselves contain a high level of carbon. This carbon is relatively stable and can stay in the soil for generations, if not centurys.
