[Terrapreta] Back to black: hydrothermal carbonisation of biomassto clean up CO2 emissions from the past

[Duane Pendergast]

Good paper.

 

Done.

 

Duane

 

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[mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Michael Bailes
Sent: May 26, 2007 10:01 AM
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Subject: [Terrapreta] Back to black: hydrothermal carbonisation of biomassto
clean up CO2 emissions from the past

 

Does some one want to tell them that this is not "NEW"?

http://biopact.com/2007/05/scientists-describe-hydrothermal.html 

Only biomass can be used for the creation of such carbon-negative energy
systems that clean up our emissions from the past. Other renewables are
carbon-neutral at best, meaning they can only reduce future CO2 emissions -
something many scientists think is not enough to avert dangerous climate
change.

Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Arne Thomas and Markus Antonietti of the
Department of Colloid Chemistry at the Max
<http://www.mpg.de/english/institutesProjectsFacilities/instituteChoice/koll
oid_grenzflaechen/index.html>  Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces,
now describe a new, highly efficient though 'low-tech' way to use biomass as
a tool to clean up past emissions. Their research appears in an open access
article in the New
<http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/NJ/article.asp?doi=b616045j>
Journal of Chemistry, in which they suggest creating "turbo-rainforests"
based on fast-growing energy crops that are grown, turned into bio-coal via
a process known as hydrothermal carbonization (HTC), and then stored into
'carbon landfills', while deriving energy from the process. The technique
can be practised on an ultra-large scale, and can thus be described as a
geo-engineering option - one that is actually technically and economically
feasible.



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