In addition to the increased production of materials, humanity also has an ever-increasing demands for Energy, accompanied by unintended side effects such as the production of greenhouse gases.
The atmospheric level of carbon dioxide has been steadily rising since the 1960's. In 2021, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reached a high of 416.45 parts per million, in comparison to 1960 levels which stood at about 316.91 parts per million. Carbon dioxide emissions largely come from human activities such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation, and are a primary driver of climate change. Published by Ian Tiseo, Jan 27, 2022
When trees are cut down and removed from the forests for developments the land below is no longer protected from the sun. Over time this land becomes barren, resulting in soil erosion and desertification. This desertification results in decreased water storage capabilities over time and an unsustainably increased water drainage over the surface of the ground which actually exacerbates drought conditions and can even cause low tides in streams and rivers during a drought summer. Just to give you an idea: Germany alone lost approx. 50 trillion litres of ground water in the last 20 years, that is the amount of the “Bodensee”, the biggest lake in Germany. This water isn’t available for the roots of crops, flowers, and entire forests anymore, and consequently for our civilisation. Crops and forests are dying, food prices are skyrocketing. Any product you can imagen, be it your clothes, your food, your car, or the microchips in your cell phone came in contact with fresh ground water in the production phase. Lifting this water up from the ground is easy but putting it back into the soil to close the circular system is very hard. A global problem.
One very important part of the Carbon Century is, as the name suggests, carbon. Not only as pollutant and greenhouse gas in from of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) but also in form of bio-activated carbon and as a CO2 sink. Yes, you heard it right.
If biomass is used as feedstock for our MWDP-technology and the bio-activated carbon produced in the process is strictly not intended as biofuel, the discussed system can be regarded as a CO2 sink. This offers the possibility for industrial firms, which, despite great effort, still emit a lot of CO2, to improve the overall CO2 balance. Highly porous bio-activated carbon with an inner surface of approx. 1200-2500 square meters/gram, which is half a soccer field of space in 1 gram, is on high demand around the world since it is a pure carbon lattice (it is NOT charcoal obtained from the combustion of plant matter) and free of any harmful toxins, volatile substances and ash. The demand for this quality of bio-activated carbon is increasing globally with applications reaching from the industry like air and water treatment, production of modern materials, car and aviation to medicine, agriculture and stockbreeding and much more.
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