What factors contributed to biochar's success?

What factors contributed to biochar's success?
A 'Climate Emergency Renaissance for a Circular Bioeconomy'

- 'Cradle to Cradle' (circular) or 'Cradle to Grave' (linear) Carbon Removal in a Cascade of Uses (CRCU) with end of cascade Carbon sinks in either soil to grow more plants with all it's associated benefits (circular) or hard infrastructure (linear)

- Plant industry revolution, with fast CO2 accumulator plants selected for food, medicine and material feedstocks, including increasing amount of biomass waste converted to biochar with pyrolysis technology
- Investors cash/Corporation's cash aiming to achieve a Net Zero operation by purchasing Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)/Biochar Carbon Removal (BCR) credits from the Carbon Removal Marketplace (CRM)
- Permanent Carbon removal
- Maturation of the CRM and related platform infrastructure
- smartphones eg. dMRV apps integrated with CRM platforms for BCR credits earned by Charistas for producing biochar

- need for post-quantum/'quantum proofed' platform (anyone interested?)
- Pyrolysis technology revolution
- small to medium sized biochar stoves and kilns
- Top-Lit UpDraft stoves (TLUD)
- Champion 2008
- Fabstove
- Navigator 'Backup' V2
- Navigator 'Awesome' V2
- TLUD oil drum kilns eg. Warm Heart Foundation
- larger TLUD kilns (experimental)
- flame cap biochar kilns
- pyramid kilns
- Kon-Tiki kilns
- panel kilns eg. Flame Cap 'Algorithm' Panel Kiln, 'Obtainium' (use what you can get) panel kilns etc.
- large biochar kilns
- combined biochar, heat, bio-oil, wood vinegar and bioelectricity options
- eg. ECHO2, CharCell, CharMaker, Joey's open source trough pyrolyser etc.

- related biomass and biochar hardware
- pelletisers
- mills

- chippers

- chainsaws

- bush saws
- Charistas and communities rising to the challenge, often motivated by a desire to exit poverty and produce higher crop yields while saving water, fertiliser and chemicals
- Expansion of logistics networks, electrification of transport (in progress) and efficient and powerful logistics software systems
- Rate of global Carbon removal with predictions of Gigatonne scale removals by 2030
- Biochar applications
- water filtration eg. small scale (Permafilter 20L) to large scale (mine sites, stormwater etc.)
- agriculture/forestry/agroforestry/horticulture/permaculture eg.regenerative farming, regenerative agroforestry etc.
- plastic pyrolysis upcycling->plastic char->Flash Joule Heating->graphene, bio-oil->Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel, monomers to new plastic etc.
- advanced new materials eg. bioplastic filler, graphene, electronics, batteries (bamboo), perovskite C backed PV cells, supercapacitors (bamboo), Carbon fibre filler etc.
- hard infrastructure eg. charcrete, hempchracrete, paving, roofing tiles, bitumen filler etc.
- many more
And, most importantly:
- The good will of the people who want a living Earth for future generations

A new TLUD design to prototype. A combo of DIY, laser cutting and off the shelf components. Anything is possible in Australia!

Every Renaissance needs drafting equipment for design. This is the stage before potentially using CAD software eg. free open source 'LibreCAD' that runs on Windows, Apple and Linux (eg.Ubuntu). I've finally cracked that code with an XP Pen 'Magic Note Pad' (stylus included but not rugged hardware eg. gorilla glass not possible), running in 'Black and White mode', with 'Battery Saver' turned on (with approximately 130 hours run time from one charge), running the Japanese drawing software 'Clip Studio Paint' on Android 14 OS. An excellent user experience to be had! I would avoid dropping it, crushing it or using it in the rain though. Unfortunately 'Clip Studio Paint' isn't available for Linux and the Windows version doesn't work in Ubuntu (or any Linux OS), even running 'Crossover' or 'Wine'. 'Krita' is a pretty good alternative for Ubuntu that is free and well supported...A notepad, mechanical pencil, eraser and ruler works just fine too.