Building a Biochar Business in New England - Bob Wells This presentation will outline Bob’s experience with putting together farm scale biochar production systems that remove waste materials, capture process heat, create co-products, and eliminate pollutants, all while delivering high quality biochar to be used or sold. This presentation will include Bob’s hands-on experience with a mobile retort that he designed, built, sold, and commissioned. Finding the right balance of people, location, technology, and market are key to bringing biochar and biochar production into the mainstream. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0EikOSkuL4 Frank Jeffers will offer a brief review of technology already in the public domain. We have many methods of producing charcoal, and methods going back to the 1930's for reforming the byproducts. The question exists of its applicability and acceptance where we try to apply it including Haitian skills and technology, the Jamaican coal kiln, the sailing charcoal sloop that delivers renewable biomass energy. The superiority of charcoal over Lena, or stick wood as a domestic fuel. The papers of Daniel M. Kammen and the findings of Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation on the costs to society of indoor smoke. The user interface. This will take education of the world's isolated people, and that will take electricity. The same system that supplied household energy and that supplies biochar can also produce the minimal amounts of electricity required. The cost of photovoltaic power can be slashed to micro loan level, and reliability can be increased with backup generation using charcoal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74suH06T88M Eric Sorensen will speak about Carbon Roots International's experience launching a community-scale biochar project in rural Haiti. He will discuss locally-appropriate technology, adoption strategies, and developing a project model using the Human-Centered Design methodology, as well as share the false assumptions, lessons learned, and pivots that Carbon Roots International has made over the past three years in Haiti.