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So what is it we are doing at Carbonsate? 🤔 We enable the large-scale implementation of biomass storage projects for carbon removal. In doing so, we allow our planet to reach net zero and reverse climate change over time. 🌳 Storing biomass for carbon removal is the most efficient way to get carbon underground permanently. We at Carbonsate develop the technology to make these projects easy to implement for anyone on a global scale. 🌍 To be effective at removing carbon, the process needs to be transparent, efficient, and durable. As a result of our approach, corporations can offset residual emissions by obtaining high-quality carbon removal credits. 🔖 In this picture, you can see our co-founder Fabian Sperling installing our proprietary sensor system for MRV at our proof-of-concept site. Through rigorous MRV and scientific supervision, we can enable a transparent way to store CO2 safely. 📖 Get in touch with us to learn more about our technology and how you can start implementing carbon removal at scale! #cdr #forests #sustainability #innovation Johanna Broell

“If you are working with lesser-known carbon removal technologies, like ocean-based methods, terrestrial biomass storage, or enhanced rock weathering, there are fewer players in the field, you will need to be more actively involved in public policy." Check out the second in our series of conversations with CDR Developers for terrific actionable insights as we sat down with Fabian Sperling at Carbonsate! We covered great ground on the importance of industry collaboration; on funding a CDR venture; Public Policy work and co-benefits of carbon removal. Enjoy, and please let us know what you think! https://lnkd.in/eU_nYi_W

🚨 If you missed our webinar on 'NETs' aka 'carbon capture' yesterday - the recording is available here: 😄 Let me know if you watch and have any questions!

📽 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 '𝗡𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗘𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀' (𝗡𝗘𝗧𝘀) 👀 Watch here: https://lnkd.in/ewmWajn9 In this recording of our ‘Lunch & Learn’ session from 13th June 2024, Finlay Asher from Safe Landing takes the audience through our draft position on NETs. 🏭 Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) can also be called: ‘Carbon Capture & Storage’ (CCS), ‘Carbon Dioxide Removal’ (CDR), ‘Greenhouse Gas Removal’ (GGR) or ‘Engineered Removals’. ☁ NETs refers to industrial processes (rather than natural processes such as tree growth) which actively remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere by capturing and storing it, supposedly permanently. The technologies usually proposed are: ⚡ Direct Air Carbon Capture & Storage (DACCS) – capturing CO2 directly from the atmosphere via industrial processes and storing it underground. 🌲 Bioenergy with Carbon Capture & Storage (BECCS) – producing energy from biomass, then storing part of the resulting carbon underground or in the soil. 📃 The half-hour discussion which followed the presentation wasn’t recorded, but was lively and useful, and has already been used to update our draft position which can be viewed here: https://lnkd.in/eks83gXX 👨🏫 The slide pack from the presentation can be found here: https://lnkd.in/e-ytv8Xa 📧 Please contact: [email protected] if you’d like to contribute thoughts to this position before we publish it at the end of June. 👉 Sign-up to Safe Landing to join our discussion groups and contribute to future positions and talks: safe-landing.org/sign-up We’d also be very happy to repeat this presentation to any interested organisation – please get in touch if this is you! #Aviation #Negative #Emissions #Technologies #Technology #CarbonCapture #CO2 #Carbon #Removals #SustainableAviation

Capsol and Storegga recently announced the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which occurred between the two companies not long ago. This MoU surrounds the companies’ interests in commercial development of the Co2 value chain. Both companies have expressed interest in the opportunities encompassing the commercial development of large-scale Co2, so the MoU covers the companies’ plans for collaboration on projects which involve carbon capture, transportation and permanent storage. The article below looks at how companies are now not only encouraging other companies to look into using a CCS system, but are also developing methods of making it better and more accesible to a wider variety of companies. By making the developments and adaptations that they are hoping to, the aim for the companies is to encourage more and more businesses to use the CCS value chain, therefore increasing the amount of decarbonisation, without businesses having to go through a lot of hustle to reach that point. Follow our page for the latest insights and industry news on everything within the hydrogen industry & for the latest updates on the world’s largest Hydrogen Technology Expo in Hamburg next year. #Carbon #CarbonCapture #Hydrogen #BlueHydrogen #CarbonCaptureTechnologyExpoEurope #CCTE2024

🛢️🌱 We can make SAF – Sustainable Aviation Fuels - and marine #biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass! We do this with our pyrolysis process. In the BioTheRos EU Project, we are working with our partners to demonstrate the biomass-to-transport fuel value chain for two types of biomass. We plan to reduce CO2 emissions even more through carbon capture, and look into hydrogen production from the light fractions. Check the post below to see what else we do!

We're excited to share a groundbreaking development in renewable fuels! Researchers from RWTH Aachen University, the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, and ETH Zürich, including Walter Leitner and André Bardow, have developed HyFiT, a new synthetic fuel. 🚀🔋 HyFiT fuels can be used directly in today's engines, significantly reducing particulate matter and nitrogen oxides emissions. Produced from renewable resources like green electricity, water, biomass, and CO₂, these fuels close the carbon cycle and utilize existing industrial infrastructure. Our study shows HyFiT fuels have a superior environmental profile, outperforming even battery-based technologies, especially over long distances. This innovation marks a significant step toward sustainable, carbon-neutral transportation. Read more about the peer-reviewed research in the international journal Nature: https://lnkd.in/e4TmZA7e Pictures: FSC #RenewableEnergy #SustainableTransport #ClimateAction #fuelscience #fuelsciencecenter #fsc #sustainability #propulsionsystems #innovation

The sleepy, rustic state of Arkansas in the south-west of the US is not typically considered to be at the cutting edge of technological innovation. However, last week, ‘the Bear State’ hosted a technological milestone: the opening of the world’s largest #carbondioxideremoval (#cdr) plant. Graphyte, a start-up backed by Bill Gates’ climate solutions accelerator Breakthrough Energy , opened a factory that turns carbon-rich #biomass waste from nearby paper mills into bricks – ‘carbon casting’ – that can be safely stored underground, thereby removing carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere. By the end of the year, the facility will have captured more than 15,000 tonnes (t) of CO₂. To put that into context, the much-heralded direct air capture (DAC) plants run by Climeworks in Iceland and Heirloom in California, can annually capture 4,000t and 1,000t of CO₂, respectively. In November, American Airlines became Graphyte’s inaugural customer, with the purchase of 10,000 tons of permanent #carbonremoval to be delivered in early 2025. “One of the great strengths of #BiCRS [biomass carbon removal and storage] technologies, and our ‘carbon casting’ process more specifically, is the ability to scale really rapidly,” says Hannah Murnen, Graphyte’s chief technology officer. “So we can start having an impact right away, which is key because as a society we are not moving fast enough on carbon removal.” Indeed, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that by 2050, an eye-watering ten gigatonnes (Gt) of CO₂ will have to be absorbed from the atmosphere annually across the planet – today, the world removes less than 0.002% of that. Graphyte is another example of the simple but effective BiCRS suite of technologies that have taken the lead in the CDR space – but are they the long-term answer to the carbon surplus? To find out, ready my latest feature for Energy Monitor👇 https://lnkd.in/gRshr5Gs Many thanks for the help and insight: Hannah Murnen of Graphyte, Rudy Kahsar at RMI, CDR.fyi🙏🙏🙏

Bill Gates and Breakthrough have been very wrong headed with their types of steel and concrete building based carbon capture techs. Any already validated nature based carbon removal powered by photosynthesis such as forest management (to prevent fires), re-wilding (letting or helping rainforest, grassland and wetlands expand) or just have humans leaving some root vegetables in the ground in nature would exponentially beat these Gates sponsored CO2 numbers by many more zeros. Steel and concrete infrastructure carbon removal will continued to need fossil fuel to build, maintain and eventually take down. Its promotion is obviously very helpful for people and industries that want to keep using fossil fuels to build stuff by deluding they want to help the environment. See oil states promoting carbon capture and literally running global climate conferences. Their message there really is: Don’t stop using fossils for Human’s commercial and energy infrastructure, because we found the One tech to suck all the poisons we emitted to the air over 100 years better than the storage capacity of life cycle of trees and fishes when fossilized if left alone (or encouraged 😉).

In case you missed it: recently, RMI's Applied Innovation Roadmap for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) reviewed the technical readiness of all known CDR approaches.   The findings around biomass CDR were that storing carbon in living biomass (e.g. healthy forests) and timber building products (e.g. making structures out of wood) are technically viable CDR solutions ready to scale.   What may be more surprising is RMI found biomass direct storage (e.g. wood vaults) as the CDR technology solution with lowest ‘critical path’ cost for near-term CDR solutions, by an order of magnitude. Access the report and learn about CDR approaches below! ⬇ (disclaimer: Kodama contributed to review on the roadmap)