Decarbonization and energy generation can go hand in hand: The future is climate-positive!

The biggest species is carbon of pyrolytic origin (biochar) from forest or grassland fires, not because fires happen so often, but because this is themost stable and long-lasting way of storing carbon. These forms of carbon have an Impact that we today sum up as fertility, a combination of increased water storage capacity while preventing water logging, increasing cation exchange capacity and increasing the catalytic surface, raising pH value and being reductive (anti-oxidising). Biochar can be made out of any organic residues. With state-of-the-art technology using an exothermal process, it can generate heat and power while also being much cleaner than any other solid fuel combustion process without exhaust treatment. If this biochar is incorporated into the soil after being used as feed additive, bedding material or simply being mixed with urine, each kilowatt-hour of energy generated would have a carbon footprint of minus 500g CO2 – and be climate positive. The world's soils are degrading – now we have a powerful tool to reverse this – and the global potential of harvest residues that are not otherwise used is large enough for pyrolysis and biochar to potentially stop or
reverse climate change!