• bentropy@feddit.de
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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
    • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)@pawb.social
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      11 months 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.

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        11 months ago

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