Productize Atmospheric CO2
Better Carbon
The Truth
about Carbon Dioxide Removal
some CO₂ emissions will still remain —
we’ll need ways to counter them.
Negative emissions possible for everyone through decentralized renewable energy.
Waste transformed into BioChar for soil, polymers, cement additives, biogas catalysts, and more.
The Ecosystem
From production to utilization
EU Project "BioUpHub" builds Mobile Biochar Booster A mobile plant is developed to enrich biochar with liquid fertilizers-organic and synthetic-for smarter, circular agriculture.
Better Carbon focusses on catalyzing CDR-deployments through biochar by developing better biochar applications.
Let us create positive impact by completing the value offering of biochar - besides the carbon dioxide removal potential and CO2-neutral heat.
Biochar
BioUpHub
The aim of the project is to build and test a prototype mobile plant for loading biochar with liquid nutrient solutions (both organic recycled fertilizers such as liquid fermentation residues or manure and synthetic fertilizers).
The production and use of biochar from biogenic waste streams has many advantages in terms of sustainable, local value creation. Closing nutrient cycles by using local, pyrolyzed biomass as a fertilizer additive/substitute allows for greater independence from globally traded synthetic fertilizers and contributes to social justice. The production of biochar is associated with the long-term sequestration of atmospheric CO2 as long as the biochar is used as a material (ecological sustainability). Even though this positive climatic effect has commercial appeal via a voluntary certification system, this source of revenue does not justify an investment decision.
To achieve an economically sustainable solution, it is necessary to maximize the utility value of biochar, which can be done by enriching it with nutrients. For this purpose, a prototype loading facility is to be built, through which biochar can be optimized on demand, either at the place of production and/or use. The establishment and testing of a loading system thus completes the social-ecological-economic sustainability triplet for the diverse uses of biochar.
