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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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
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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The process may be a bit more complex than I understood, but my understanding is that the gist of it is to "burn" plant stuff in a way that doesn't create carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases. One way of doing that is to use a chamber flooded with nitrogen or similar inert gas. No oxygen means carbon can't bind to two oxygen atoms to create carbon dioxide.

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