Biochar

We still have a lot of market concentration with Microsoft and Frontier.

And you can even look at Biochar, which seems to be taking on a bit of a life of its own.

But at the end of the day, excluding Microsoft, the average or the median purchase volume, there's still less than 100 tons.

So this is all...

And I'm not just talking about the smell, okay? This is from NotTheBee.

Overall, the strongest concrete was generally produced when 5% of the cement was replaced with poop biochar.

Anyway, B-I-O-C-H-A-R.

But the poop creek had another interesting trick.

It continued to gain substantial strength as it cured.

So everybody would benefit from such an idea.

I'm actually curious if maybe Sebastian, you have a take on this, because when I was looking yesterday at the estimations in the impact assessments that came out together with the EDHS review proposal, then it seemed to me that the assumption was that Biochar potentially, if it were to be included, could make up maybe 10 or maybe 15% of this 250 million, just because of the potential impact.

scale it could have in Europe is not as high.

You mentioned 20-beacher.

This whole category has real science behind it and buyers who are finally starting to take it seriously, and that took years to earn.

Every project under the Biochar umbrella is spinning down that same trust, industrial and artisanal both.

Let this keep sliding and the people cutting corners won't just torch their own projects, they'll hand every buyer already on the fence a reason to walk away from biochar credits altogether.

Somebody here needs to say this before an investigative journalist does.

In this episode, we explore whether the Commission's cost estimates for bio-CCS, DACCS, and biochar are holding up against what is happening in the market right now.

Sebastian has recently published a deep dive into where the numbers are coming from, and we have two guests with us with a first-hand knowledge in the real project economics to comment on it.

Evert Pernot, the executive director of Carbon Management Europe, focusing on bio-CCS and DACCS, and Hans-Jörg Lerchenmüller, the founder and chair of Biochar Europe, focusing on biochar.

With Evert and Hans-Jörg, we covered a lot of ground.

We started off by discussing how these costs actually feed into the broader proposal that we're discussing here and the role that they actually play.

Here it's 26.

Let's move on to the last category, biochar.

Biochar carbon removal.

Welcome to the Chai Chit Chat, a podcast exploring all things biochar related.

Coming to you from a small sheep and tree farm in the deep south of New Zealand.

Hi Amanda Currie, thank you for joining me today.

We only ever put them out in the rain because we're wanting the action of water and the force of gravity to pull those microbes into the soil profile.

And we've been reasonably happy, but we don't think it's an end product.

So what we're looking to do this season is to apply microbes in the process I've described, but with the addition of biochar.

And for that to be done, we need to process the biochar into like a sand or a flour, if you like, so that it can go through our sprayer.

And we're probably not looking to put it out at huge rates, but we're seeing what's the minimum that we could do to get a plant response.