The Vision Behind the Biochar Calculator
Biochar may turn out to be the cheapest globally relevant carbon removal technology. It can create a role shift for farmers from “climate & species extinction sinners” (WWF Living Planet Report 2020) to “climate protection workers” and at the same time increasing profitability of their farm.
How this Vision is Achieved
Farmers face severe economic and vital challenges: droughts, floods, wildfires, irrigation water shortages, soil degradation, pollution, regulation… Incentives by subsidies (carbon certificates) may help, but are insufficient drivers. Establishment of C-sinks in agriculture through biochar will most effectively be driven by economic motivation.
The Biochar Calculator empowers farmers and others who work with soil, to analyze costs and benefits of their individual biochar use at a certain location. In this way, clean carbon technology can turn out to be lucrative and increase profitability of farming operations.
Why We’re Passionate
About Biochar
Biochar increases the water holding capacity of the soil and reduces irrigation costs.
Storing plant available nutrients in the soil and preventing run-offs.
Increasing soil fertility and increases the carbon sink effect in the soil.
Takes away the odor (methane) from dairy cow waste lagoons and thus reducing their methane emissions from waste by up to 79%.
Increasing meat quality and production of farm animals.
Increasing the milk production of dairy cows.
Reducing costs for vets and medicines when fed to farm animals.
As feed additive, biochar reduces enteric methane emission from cows by totally up to 50%.
Mitigating climate change problems.
