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join us and register. now for the d, w global media for in 2020 for the this, i'm assuming the be tough bandwidth is supposed to have 5 air pollution, generates energy and reduced carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. and it's called bio char. sounds incredible, doesn't it? well, some say that hyper on this chart is just green washing. what is it that bob bradshaw that makes it, sol? controversial? 3 came to a bad char plan to get some answers. this is a brand new bio chart plants and it produces a much more than that. and we'll come to that in a 2nd. my address is good for any other organic material that design up to 700. all right, tons of degrees in the absence of oxygen,

and that is called pyro. this is the heat evo price. the substances inside the biome, as they are emitted as combustible gases, and by a oil which can be used to generate energy. and luckily i left with at the end of the process is pure stable. carbon wants to buy a mess that's burning. most systems can sustain themselves without using additional energy. as part of the planet, the carbon cycle plants absorbs c o. 2 from the atmosphere in girl is bio mass, but when they die, they be composed and most of to see what they sec step is released back into the atmosphere. but instead of decomposing or burning, it can be turned they mean to buy a char. we could black holes of the carbon into this file, or else back for a hundreds of years. the people are more more aware of the we need to store more and more common. this is cost isaac. now, the sea of no credible data clinic to be fully operation by the 1st quarter of 2024

until then, then optimizing their systems the experiments with different uses of bio try kicked of over the last night kate, but actually from mount fields took them can we have produced chuck while the many ways for thousands of years that many ways of making buy a chart, but not many of them look like, especially the key is to keep boxing it out. if we come by a mess, we will continue to burn, turning to ash and most of the carpet and sites go go back into that most square, which is exactly what you want. that lights. let's hear. the process is much more complex because this to why purchasing by a charge, it makes sure that uses all the combustible guys, this feeds back to the system if the temperature is high and this the testers as much time as possible. the, depending on the bio mass and the pyro, this is process up to 80 percent of the carbon it contains can be sequestered,

that is wide by a is now being presented by the end. us treat as a good way to store carbon dioxide. but not everyone is cheering going down the road in the name of time and take the space and income negative emissions. we're creating new demand for biomass, elmwood, ernestine, and her team at british and g o biofuels. large have been following the debate and scientific data on bio chars since 2008 for the name is up in maine moore. that conversion tool that occasion krupps. and all of the being off of far as both of which was half really devastating impact on nature. and sadly became well the right they've seen that happen elsewhere. biofuels with their lawns held as an echo from the source of energy produce main and from corner sugarcane. buckman next, but stay viruses can often do more harm than good because of the baby girl. them.

critics vari that we could be making the same mistake again with bio chose the forest and area plants fast growing by on this trumpet sound and turn it into bio chart destroying echo systems and by a diverse in the process. but we don't have to because there's a huge amount of biomass. we got current, the res, think stuff of binding stop in binding step is going to stop little burning in northern india according to a recent study in india alone, 120000000 tons of fries tasks and other agricultural vase that burned in open pits every year and this contributed significantly to air pollution around the country, which goes up to $2000000.00 people per year, according to professor because he uncle co shop by a try can help you speak to the board. this one team, you've done the d. c into a bio chart recei about of the, the about to still be in tons of commission reduction. if that is still going to

you left me about $10.00 to $13.00 person just to talk to gigi and mission audit and the adults that would be a huge contribution to mitigating the crime with crisis. india is currently the 3rd highest. you'll tell me that during the virals and the fire was producing to buy a chart, could use it to increase their yields or set it for extra income. what via proposing is to have them to buy a unit small units that can produce about trying to feed itself or maybe not in every state, but maybe every district has a centralized location today. you can produce and bring your river residues bill can go to didn't the chart. we could replicate this in many other places in the world. estimates of how much way a child can reduce climate government gases without harming it. go systems very, but it does at technology that has the potential to address many environmental challenges at the ones the difference between this, here's why is this to them and the smaller ones is what you can do with the excess

energy. here they see that water and send it to the great and this is a very common in an eco friendly way of heating homes. other companies like disciplining, as trail. yeah. use excess energy to heat. they have green houses and used to buy a chart for growing plants. some people called at the carbon negative energy. as at the end of the process, we will have carbon locked in bio chart. if it does produce with excess local by on this, it could make it a great way of producing energy. but ultimately, it depends on how we get the biomass and about the little bit. and if it was transported from hundreds of kilometers away, or if the forest had to be cleared, or if it is used to replace coal burning, then it is no longer eco friendly. the no credible may set of hot water to the city, but its main product goes to farmers. we mainly sell to a halt in culture companies mainly to scandinavia. the moment more and more

agricultural businesses use bio chart that has styled quality and increase you. we see that in full size, it seems to work better than me, very rich. so it's and also if you have sandy salts, you improve the water holding capacity. usually this is glad you come on. she has been researching, bio charter for the last 15 years. and after about more of that, then the decayed off by a chill reset should be know from meta studies. but you combine a lot of knowledge from different scientific studies that we have on average increases in yields. but critics say that the average bio try results inconsistencies, and in some cases actually cause harm impacts them. so i can be negative, can be new truck, and in some cases be positive and nobody can printing tower play out at any one time. many scientists say they did not fully understand by a chart that is what it does, but they can measure the results. in many cases,

these are positive, but scientists struggled to create conditions that bias charged. the effects are 100 percent predictable. the critics are not totally incorrect so it's it's, it's not the next terry part of that works. the same kind of very collaborative path, but you can normally extract the cases where it works quite well. and these cases are, might be known by a chart of x wanders into newton per styles of the tropics. that is because bio try has an incredible surface area. this was some crazy about one gram of high quality by a chart kind of a more surface area than a basketball court. this makes by a trying amazing cost for all the phone guy buck carion to buy groups that are essential for plant out. it can also retain the nutrients, making them available for the plant. the same goes for water because bio chuck in store up to 5 times its own right? that is why why a truck can help increase yields, particularly incentive files, that otherwise easy to lose voltage in nutrients. and it also has other surprising

effects, nitrous oxide, as a very poll for greenhouse gas, it has on average, more than $280.00 this time of warming potential. then c o 2 has over a 100 years. and nitrous oxide is mostly formed from the huge amount of 2 lots of set to use by carrying this so it can break down and nitrate based on you've heard to laser things and 2, which is not the greenhouse gas, but we put so much for july is it on the lent that the microbes 10th process at all and it goes into the utmost sort as the climate killer, nitrous oxide, up to 75 percent of the world's nitrous oxide emissions come from agricultural activity separately. test studies now exist to show that on average we have a very, a reduction of about 40 percent of these and to additions, if used by a chain close together with the coach. but in some of the production studies,

we did it guys and have university. we seen reductions up to 80 percent and 40 to 80 percent reduction in this climate killing. guess that is really promising. background about the cost. now what kind of is looking for a return on the considerable investment of $8500000.00 euros. that's why they're also selling another product that is somewhat controversial to using the body shop, a called product. we bring this by trying to applications for example, into soil solomon and once having bought the buy of trying to the soil. the common credit can be issued because we have thoughts, the carbon, the bio chop permanently in the soil and then it's fixed there, which is uses this side roughly a $1700.00 tons of buyer shop per year. and this remains into roughly 3200 tons of c o. 2. that is equivalent to iran. lots, tara 100 german statements on average in a year. it's not much, but it says start the system of buying carbon credits. the balance of emissions can

be controversial. and we spent the whole episode digging into that. definitely check it out. if you want to go down the rabbit hole, the carbon code is a side by a try, looks like a very promising way of tech link, many of the climates related problems to be faced today. from enriching this solid and increasing guilds to reducing c o 2 in nitrous oxide adapters fan, it can help us use that's hard to live there. and walter. we didn't even mention other potential use of bio try like in concrete, that could reduce the carbon footprint of construction. but bio char comes with the caution. it's only useful if we have a lot of otherwise based the look of bio mass. that's why we focus on waste streams and looking into all the circular economy approaches we have. there will be much more buying most available in the future. not presenting it as in less of a scalable global solution to all kinds of problems. is just another way of trying

to come up with simple solutions to our complex problems. but the, your think about by a to be a good tools to mitigate carbon process. we're just started using it. that's not into comments. and don't forget the task right here. we just like this one every friday. the co africa wanted to see the future of caution production. click 3 of these close with their families and kimberly not knowing how to book sustainable on virtual field. they practice how to deal with test sustainably. good for the next on d,

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