While the original climate reversal claims have shown to be overblown, claims around halting/reversing desertification seem very credible. Any ranchers out there who have tried it?
And you end up with much better grass. Good grass makes better beef.Claim: Grazed grasslands trump cover crops on long-term carbon sequestration
Studies are starting to show that grazed perennial pastures may be the best strategy for locking carbon in the soil long-term, according to experts on a recent Environmental Working Group webinar.www.agriculture.com
Not a rancher, but yes. We mob graze our ladies. We don't necessarily do it for the carbon sequestration benefit, that's a side piece. We do it because it had massive effects on our pasture health, and our weaning weights climbed because of it.
That's not really accurate.
I'm interested in mixing in some nitrogen fixing, bloat free sainfoin with the grass and see how good the beef gets. Bees like it too.
Agree… aside from drilling I’m not sure how NG at 15,000 feet below ground level gets to the surface. I guess if we are talking millions of year potentially plates crashing together or something.
There are detailed Life Cycle Analysis done on these biomass projects, and carbon credits are verified and issued.
There is a reason soil carbon credits are worth $25 a ton and biochar carbon credits are worth over $100 a ton and sold years in advance.As for carbon sequestration, I think developing crops with massive fine root production as well as useful food benefit like this one will be much more productive than using biochar. Biochar is expensive and energy/labor consumptive putting it back into the soil. It also has to be charged with nutrients prior to incorporating in the soil, or it will take available nutrients from the soil initially. It's a boutique soil amendment that will only pay for itself on high end crops such as vineyards.
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Perennial grain crops hold unique and robust potential to help mitigate climate change by capturing significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the air and putting it back into the soil.usnature4climate.org
The carbon credit racket will be short lived. I've looked into biochar and the price needs to come way down if it ever has a chance of being anything more than a novelty. I won't invest in it. Sounds like you are sold on it. Good luck!
I'm not all that educated on Biomass, but I thought I remember reading somewhere that a lot of the Biomass is actually just freshly cut trees that are grinded into a mulch or something like that. Seems counter intuitive to me, that chopping down trees that take decades to grow, and then burning them isn't going to make all that much headway on CO2 reduction. Again, I'm not very well versed on this so maybe I'm way off base.
But can you make it out of blowdown?
I don't think there's enough blowdown to satisfy consumption requirements. My understanding was that there was logging companies who basically sold everything they cut to biofuel plants. Essentially deforestation to feed biofuel plants.
www.kunr.org
Here's a good short clip on the process. It does make some sense on a small scale local process. Cost to produce and transport is the main reason it is not taking off. Biggest CO2 reduction is by not burning the slash in the field and replacing coal in the electrical generation process. More EVs means more electrical generation. That's only going too increase in the years to come.
