The Future of Carbon Capture: A View of the Current Players

Greg Rau

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Sep 7, 2021, 9:00:50 PM9/7/21

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https://medium.com/@kyle.a.spencer.23/the-future-of-carbon-capture-a-view-of-the-current-players-57d49bef459f

“ As per the 2021 IPCC report, it is clear that it is no longer sufficient to simply reduce carbon emissions. In order to tackle climate change, we need to rapidly remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. While this seems daunting, hundreds of companies have worked towards various carbon capture and sequestration methods over the last few decades. We have compiled a list of some of these companies with a variety of carbon sequestration technologies. In addition to a brief description of their technology, we have also included indicators of economic feasibility and sustainability when available. The list is organized by the company’s main focus, but note that many of these processes and missions overlap with one another. Disclaimer: this list is not exhaustive, these companies happened to catch our attention or were more advanced in their funding or mission than others.”

Anderson, Paul

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Sep 7, 2021, 10:36:29 PM9/7/21

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Did anyone see biochar on that list? (I notice that it was not claiming to be all inclusive. And they are ahead of most undergraduate students, so they are to be commended.)

I invite Kyle and Ehina to read the white paper “Climate Intervention with Biochar” at www.woodgas.energy/resources Also see a document and video entitled “Understanding Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage (CDRS)” at the same site.

I hope that Kyle will present another post that includes biochar.

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Inventor of RoCC kilns and author of Biochar white paper : See www.woodgas.energy/resources

Author of “A Capitalist Carol” (free digital copies at www.capitalism21.org)

with pages 88 – 94 about solving the world crisis for clean cookstoves.

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“ As per the 2021 IPCC report, it is clear that it is no longer sufficient to simply reduce carbon emissions. In order to tackle climate change, we need to rapidly remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. While this seems daunting, hundreds of companies have worked towards various carbon capture and sequestration methods over the last few decades. We have compiled a list of some of these companies with a variety of carbon sequestration technologies. In addition to a brief description of their technology, we have also included indicators of economic feasibility and sustainability when available. The list is organized by the company’s main focus, but note that many of these processes and missions overlap with one another. Disclaimer: this list is not exhaustive, these companies happened to catch our attention or were more advanced in their funding or mission than others.”

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Ronal Larson

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Sep 7, 2021, 11:28:11 PM9/7/21

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Paul , Greg, and List and adding Dr. Wilson Hago (a friend - going back maybe a decade) - with an assumption he can best reach the two co-authors of the article forwarded by Greg.)

This is to defend Kyle and Ehina.

The last lines of their piece says they are or were interns at Hago Energetics - headed by (my new added cc) Dr. Wilson Hago. The Hago corporate website has plenty of (very favorable) mention of biochar.

As interns with Wilson, anything they would have said about biochar companies would have been suspect. I think they made a wise choice to just avoid biochar altogether. Their non-biochar list gave me considerable new CDR information.

Anyone reading material at Wilson’s corporate site

(https://hagoenergetics.com/index.php/projects/green-hydrogen-project/)

will see plenty on the word “hydrogen”. Producing biochar always releases syngas - of which hydrogen is a major component. And too often flared. Wilson may not now be using pyrolysis - but I hope he is - and convinces others to do the same.

Hydrogen and biochar as co-products may be hard to beat - as the biochar half of the partnership must be viewed as an investment, if the biochar is placed in soil. Hence negative biochar costs are possible (but not negative hydrogen costs).

Ron

On Sep 7, 2021, at 8:36 PM, Anderson, Paul <psan...@ilstu.edu> wrote:

To all,

Did anyone see biochar on that list? (I notice that it was not claiming to be all inclusive. And they are ahead of most undergraduate students, so they are to be commended.)

I invite Kyle and Ehina to read the white paper “Climate Intervention with Biochar” atwww.woodgas.energy/resources Also see a document and video entitled “Understanding Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage (CDRS)” at the same site.

To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/CarbonDioxideRemoval/SA2PR03MB5932213028DA19B2A7666742DBD49%40SA2PR03MB5932.namprd03.prod.outlook.com.