This is great Angus! I am interested in the bioplastic puzzle piece, and while I haven't built a router I have some CNC experience and happy to discuss or even come up to hack at that
Thanks for the write up. A part that may be missing (or may be obvious to people in the field) is your strategy for long term storage / séquestration. If biochar is just "used in agriculture", my understanding is that part of the carbon would be brought back to the atmosphere in a short time scale. Is that correct ? Otherwise, are they specific ways to store / use the biochar from those algae ? How does it compare to other storage solutions ? Thanks and sorry if all of this is trivial !
Not trivial at all. Long term storage and how it gets there is key. Agriculture works as a long term solution. Many of our soils are poor and biochar combined with regenerative farming practices is effective at restoring them and retaining the carbon in the soil for hundreds of years. However, each approach has its own carbon intensity derived from transportation and steps to deploy and underground storage may be the least intensive of these. There’s work to do on mapping this out. Thanks
This is great Angus! I am interested in the bioplastic puzzle piece, and while I haven't built a router I have some CNC experience and happy to discuss or even come up to hack at that
Thanks Ben, am excited to talk about this. Please DM me and we’ll figure out a time to dig into this. Thanks
Thanks for the write up. A part that may be missing (or may be obvious to people in the field) is your strategy for long term storage / séquestration. If biochar is just "used in agriculture", my understanding is that part of the carbon would be brought back to the atmosphere in a short time scale. Is that correct ? Otherwise, are they specific ways to store / use the biochar from those algae ? How does it compare to other storage solutions ? Thanks and sorry if all of this is trivial !
Not trivial at all. Long term storage and how it gets there is key. Agriculture works as a long term solution. Many of our soils are poor and biochar combined with regenerative farming practices is effective at restoring them and retaining the carbon in the soil for hundreds of years. However, each approach has its own carbon intensity derived from transportation and steps to deploy and underground storage may be the least intensive of these. There’s work to do on mapping this out. Thanks