Can carbon sequestration help cool down global warming?
, and has finished in the top ten for Clean Technology in a competition with 500 contestants. Instead of the Marshall fire leading to more greenhouse gas emissions, Gaspard turned the disaster’s biomass into a substance that holds and utilizes carbon in the ground for decades, if not much longer. According to, a nonprofit group of scientists fighting climate change, a ton of biochar sequesters three tons of carbon dioxide.
The results looked promising, but they weren’t experts on soil fertility or biochar’s carbon-capturing properties. When they told a friend, an expert gardener, about their findings, she didn’t believe them and refused to put the substance on her plants. She contacted a lab at Colorado State University and asked its scientists to test the biochar under controlled conditions. The exam removed her doubts.
“When I call up an oil executive in Texas and tell him the name of my business,” he says, “the next thing I hear is a click: He’s hung up.”Exxon claims to have sequestered more CO2 “It’s challenging to bring everyone together to make this kind of project work,” he says, “but we’ve managed to make it happen profitably and become the first strictly focused carbon capture company at scale with the financing, the acreage and the customers signed up to start now. A lot of people go to conferences and talk about these issues, but few are investing in action.
After a dozen years in operation, Biochar Now is not yet profitable. “We’re growing too fast to be profitable, but at least we’re winning now," he notes."We’re finally out of the valley of death, and the battle is no longer to survive, but to expand.” “Because our machines run off generators,” Gaspard says, “they can be used wherever there’s a weather catastrophe.”
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