Carbon Analytic NPO

Biomass Facts:  Bullet Points

Carbon Analytic (CA) cultivated biomass refinement follows up on earlier failed efforts in commercial energy production.  New breakthroughs in biomass fuels now represent viable means to transition away from fossil fuel dependence. 

Previous trials using coarse logs, cord wood or extruded wood product have not performed well enough to be brought forward at scale.  Early models have suffered from problems with low energy output, noxious emissions, fuel resource issues and failure to maintain profit.

Great Britain has implemented public biomass power plants.  This was mostly for purposes of maintaining energy independence among global natural gas prices.  Due to a lack of applied engineering, the British example falls short of being truly sustainable.  Sourcing, refinement, combustion design and logistics need to be improved for economically viable residential and commercial expansion. Through these, the capability of controlling emissions and promoting forestry / biomass resources becomes real.

CA has taken all biomass energy technologies back to the drawing board:  Cultivation designs, fuel refinement, novel combustion methods and power technologies.  Every area has now been engineered to exceed performance and environmental needs.  Combining new methods produces a carbon and water vapor-negative footprint.  Here's how:

• New refinement technologies create biomass fuels which have near-zero on-site greenhouse gas emissions.  By carefully revisiting the engineering dynamics of conventional combustion and multi-stage gas reforming we have set new performance standards.  The ability to increase the energy per weight of fuel product results in a more complete combustion model. 

• Specific methods used to grow the raw biomass for our fuels take in excess CO2 and water vapor from the air and store it safely into soil humus.  Combined, these factors create energy with a true emissions-negative footprint.

• Over reliance on underground fuels are causing an accumulation of water and carbon gases which are not from our current geological era. CA Biomass fuels emit only water and CO2 taken in by plants during modern time.  This creates a perpetual recycling of these emissions.  In this way we can actually sequester excess 'greenhouse' gasses.  The net effect is to store carbon and water from the air into the soils, a healthy outcome.

• Petroleum fuels in particular add large amounts of water vapor to today's atmosphere.  Although this phenomenon is not commonly known, it is a scientific certainty and poses a serious threat to climate stability still being studied by NASA and others.  Water vapor has a powerful greenhouse effect causing real problems as atmospheric levels increase. The contribution of released water vapor condensing to rain happens mostly over the oceans.   Higher rainfall contributes as much as a 10% increase in oceanic thermal storage. Warming oceans are the primary source of reflective heat commonly called "greenhouse effect".  Water vapor is twice as reflective as CO2 but worse, water vapor also increases the reflectivity of the CO2 in the atmosphere.

• Atmospheric warming results in excess water vapor.  More evaporating H2O means more of it rises to reach the colder ozone layer. As it arrives, it forms higher burdens of micro-crystalline ice in the stratosphere.  Once there this additional ice destroys more and more ozone molecules as part of a complex process.  Widespread use of CA biomass fuel and power technologies directly reverses water vapor accumulation and mitigates atmospheric warming.  The process is explained in technical detail peer reviewed at this very informative link. 

• Biomass fuels are the only sustainable complement to fossil fuels capable of safely yielding large scale, on-demand energy.  Energy that is available day or night, during high winds or low.  This on-demand real time provision allows continuous adjustment of power generation to accommodate grid demands. 

• More info is available through other outlets, but we can say this:  Only limited need exists for battery storage as part of new CA mechanical models!  Instead, we use thermal storage / energy conversion technology.  This way we gain further power output with less fuel required per unit.  The flexibility of design means users and operations of the CA power systems retain and utilize heat conversion to power production as an additional power source.  CA systems only burden the customer with the fuel required to produce their need with excess energy sent back to the power companies, without additional cost to customers. 

• Biomass fuels can generate sustainable, high output power very safely.  Solid biomass fuels are not explosive and present no target opportunities for terrorist or military aggression.  There is no need to mine, transport, store or dispose of any toxic waste.  The option to produce excess carbon char byproduct provides further material for soil amendment and water purification.

• Known reserves of precious petroleum resources worldwide are calculated to be exhausted within 50 years, with continually increasing costs for extraction.  These reserves are non-renewable... https://www.worldometers.info/oil/  By contrast, biomass fuels can be produced and replenished indefinitely.

• Biomass fuels refined from various beneficial plant species can be raised large-scale on marginalized lands with sustainable financial benefit.

• Carefully managed biomass plantations rapidly heal soils and water systems where they grow, reversing desertification locally.  They sequester (transfer) harmful greenhouse gases from the atmosphere back to the soils.  As CA biomass fuels become widespread, their growing use will increasingly stabilize atmospheric conditions.  Pollutants and secondary waste streams become limited.  Meanwhile, restoration of natural water storage and lands utilization are enhanced.

• Biomass fuels can be cultivated near regional areas with the highest power demands. This reduces the logistics associated with the mining and transportation and cleanup involved with fossil fuels.  Wind and solar farms as well as nuclear reactors suffer similar drawbacks.

• The tree arbor (Silvopasture) model from Carbon Analytic is ready to harvest between 5 and 10 years (species dependent).  In-canopy pasture management allows continuous harvest of hay and livestock throughout much of the arbor cycle.  This augments cash flow between tree harvest and provides local food resources.

•  Annual field crops like hemp produce high quality raw biomass very quickly while regenerating poor soils.  This helps to reverse modern trends towards desertification.

• Biomass fuels are the only known energy source capable of safely supporting a vital, modern energy grid on an authentic, sustainable basis!