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    11 months ago

    Absolutely, I also think Biochar is very promising as one way to recapture atmospheric CO2 and to compensate further emissions.

    While I understood the production process to be a little different, the benefits of Biochar can’t be ignored.

    • low in energy consumption
    • low in recourse cost
    • very good scalable
    • no hidden science or process
    • the stored carbon can be used as a soil amendment










  • Okay, in some ways bio char itself is like the regular charcoal we know from BBQs and the manufacturing process can be quite similar. But like most things, it’s a very complex topic, therefore, I’ll only give a very rough overview for now but I’ll also share some links to further information 👍 • While charcoal is mostly made from valuable wood, bio char can be made from every form of biomass, meaning it can be made from every form of biomass waste.
    • During the manufacturing process, the chemical carbon in the biomass is put into a form that is stable for several thousand years, so unless the bio char is burned again it can’t reenter the atmosphere. • Each ton of bio char produced using plant based waste is equivalent to 2.6 tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide captured by those plants. • The manufacturing process generates a small amount of base-load energy which can be, depending on the size of the facility, enough for several hundreds of households. • The end product can be used to revitalize the extremely degraded soils we’re fighting in industrial agriculture right now.

    Tl:dr we (indirectly) take something very bad from the atmosphere, generate useful energy with it and then store it within our dead soils to revitalize it.

    It is not THE solution but I think it’s a feasible improvement.

    I’m happy to answer more questions… here are some links ✌️

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/biochar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar