Manditory cap and trade is how the California carbon credit market works. There are other carbon credit schemes out there is well. High Country news doesn't even think its legit.
I think adding carbon to any soil would be beneficial. the only thing with biochar is if you use it raw or not enriched then the biochar would initially pull available from the top soil nutrients into it. If it's mixed with manure first it will help the soil retain the nutrients a lot longer.
So it’s added topically? Which probably makes it impractical for a lot of western range lands?
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Must be something in the Michigan water.
This is renewable biomass energy, locally sourced from public land, and carbon neutral *.
Yes, I agree. So what? It is mandatory for the largest carbon emitters and set up the same as the Quebec system. You have to put a value on carbon if you want to reduce it. Companies are not going to do it voluntarily. Cap and trade is used globally - Europe, China, etc. If you have a better idea than a market-based system I am willing to listen.Manditory cap and trade is how the California carbon credit market works. There are other carbon credit schemes out there is well. High Country news doesn't even think its legit.
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It would have to be plowed in. So impractical/counterproductive in that capacity.
You can heat your house with corn, same as wood pellets, and people in Iowa have done it when corn prices were low and fuel prices were high. Corn stocks are biomass too, carbon and hydrogen.
I’m sure you can. But, how does it shake out in terms of net carbons? You’re still investing fossil fuels to plant, grow and harvest it.
Biomass seems like one of those things that probably works great up to a certain scale and in certain environments, all sources to some extent, but it's definitely heavily constrained.
I don't think that growing corn to burn in cars makes a lot of sense, but a lot of things we do make little sense.
Did you go to Chadron St? I lived there for a short while and they process about 10k tons at the college. I am no expert but I am in a DOE energy technology accelerator and get to see some really neat things coming down the pipeline. Hydrogen was not on my radar and now it seems like huge investment is going into Hydrogen. I am no expert but I can see what is going on in europe and see that we are on the same path. All you have to do is follow the $.
It depends. In can be added to seed mixes, blended with manure, tilled in, surface applied, using animal hoof action to incorporate, etc.. We use it primarily as a feed additive for livestock. Others are using it as filter media for removing contamination from water, replacement for activated carbon, adding to concrete, adding to drywall, steel production, adding to plastics, turning it into graphene, blended with manure and pelletized, applied as a liquid in fertilizer/irrigation, injected in the ground around trees, in waddles to stop algae blooms, etc..
It's mind boggling how many people think the voluntary carbon credit market is run by the government when in reality the government has little to do with it. When Nasdaq bought Puro.earth I realized how big the carbon credit market was going to be.
One of my business partners went to school there as well. They are really into renewables based on the website, wow. You are probably familiar with Shellburne farms up there. They are getting into biomass/biochar big time.Renewable Energy | Middlebury
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