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[-] bentropy@feddit.de 5 points 2 years 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
[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Surdon@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I'm confused, how can you 'burn' anything without oxygen? Burn literally means to oxidize

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago

That's why it's in quotes. You're subjecting it to high heat, which would normally cause it to burn, but because there's no oxygen it chars instead.

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