Transmuting carbon-based waste material into Char & Energy.

We will ask participants to share the land management strategies & tools they already employ (or aim to) with the objective of land resource optimization, and learn what benefits they are gleaning from these practices.

The facilitator is exploring the prospect of enabling land stewards to use the process by which woody biomass, along with other carbon-based waste streams, including plastics and fecal refuse, can be put through a process using a pyrolyzing gasifier reactor, producing clean syngas or hydrogen, and biochar. With this process one can reduce the fire vulnerability of the land, amplify the fertility and water retention of the soil, have a positive climate impact, and produce usable energy.

Gregory Altman of Criar Impact is working with an equipment provider (that has designed its product to be very flexibly-fueled), to develop a financial & deployment model such that land stewards can access this equipment on a rotating basis shared with other temporal users. This workshop is both to teach participants about the possibilities and benefits of utilizing this process, and to get an idea of which sorts of land endeavors would benefit best, and also would be interested to participate in the shared model.