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The article discusses Integrated Solar Dryer and Pyrolysis pilot plant will help smart cities transform urban organic waste into biochar & energy, which includes the Indo-German project Pyrasol launched to transform urban organic waste into biochar and energy in smart cities.

The article reports on the study that aims to reduce the cost of producing supercapacitors through the use of biochar. It highlights the initiative the two South Dakota State University engineering researcher to use biochar to create the porous surface needed to capture electricity to reduce the cost of supercapacitors. It also mentions the success of the research in demonstrating the effectiveness of biochar.

The article reports that Meghana Rao, a junior student at Jesuit High School in Portland, Oregon, was praised by U.S. President Barack Obama at the third annual White House Science Fair on April 23, 2013 for her work with a class of charcoal called biochar and how it stored carbon.