The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported Biochar as a key technology for reaching low carbon dioxide atmospheric concentration targets. The negative emissions that can be produced by Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) has been estimated by the Royal Society to be equivalent to a 50 to 150 ppm decrease in global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Annual net emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide could be reduced by a maximum of 1.8 Pg CO2-C equivalent (CO2-Ce) per year (12% of current anthropogenic CO2-Ce emissions; 1 Pg=1 Gt), and total net emissions over the course of a century by 130 Pg CO2-Ce, without endangering food security, habitat or soil conservation. Wikipedia

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30 March 2012

Australia: Biochar enters the marketplace

Posted in News, Biochar, Market, Technology

After years of research and development, the coproduction of biochar and bioenergy in a modern slow-pyrolysis facility, is coming closer to commercial reality in Australia.

By Dr Adriana Downie for Eco Generation magazine March/April 2012.

Pacific Pyrolysis (PacPyro) has been offered $4.5 million by the Victorian Government to pilot a commercial-scale production facility in Melbourne. The project will demonstrate PacPyro’s proprietary technology’s ability to deliver a solution for urban green and wood waste by converting it into renewable electricity and biochar.