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Welcome to Carbon Analytic

CA NPO (Carbon Analytic, Non Profit Organization) guides non-profit groups producing cultivated biomass, cash / food crops and grazing cultivation for sourcing biomass to clean energy production, land / water restoration and sustainable ecological repair.

♦ Cultivated biomass is a clean, sustainable energy form reducing fossil fuel dependence.

Biomass cultivation can employ hundreds or thousands in any community a sustainable self employment opportunity in both non-Profit and co-op business models. Cultivated biomass is the only truly sustainable, global energy source which can be cultivated along side of other healthy food crops, volume cash crops and animal grazing provisions.

How it works...

The Non-Profit arm of Carbon Analytic guides co-op structured agreements between land holders and those working or training in agriculture recovery, maximizing incentive and opportunity. Cultivated biomass provides a consistent format for income across all sectors of farming communities. Sustainable agriculture has existed for millennia if we simply understand how to do it. Anyone can become a member of a local non-profit and benefit from the provisions it offers.

CA's energy design does this in a 100% sustainable, renewable method, emissions negative. The CA biomass cultivation process insures regional clean fuel resources for 24/7 on demand heat and power as a reliable supply of truly clean energy conversion and utilization. From scalable equipment design to a completely renewable fuel resource; a turnkey approach to a real solution.

CA's NPO guidance and direct participation assembles the alliances of people, places and things to restore depleted soils, rehabilitate water resources above and below ground, while reducing other pollution factors growing and producing the raw fuel resource. These alliances bring reliable opportunity to undeveloped or underdeveloped land while creating short and long term employment, cash crop, food and animal / agricultural opportunity to those becoming co-owners in these alliances.

Land owners continue to own their land benefiting from a cooperative alliance with those capable of establishing a greater and sustainable use of that land to produce ecologically sound products to market with CA being the primary consumer of the goods produced for clean fuel production. Numerous federal and state grants are available to assist in the cost yet few ever learn to take advantage of these grants. CA NPO will cover this gap to help form and acquire access to these and many other provisions.

Visit the "Funding" links to learn more on the growing potentials and opportunities for funding, investment and fuller understanding of the how CA is moving success along the many ways visitors can engage, join, learn and stay informed as progress continues. Become part of a community that cares, shares and thrives because of those engaged in the vision and mission to transition our world away from fossil fuel dependence.

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The Hemp Biomass Fuel Solution:

tnewcomb — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 21:19:48 +0000

The Hemp Biomass Fuel Solution: tnewcomb Thu, 12/30/2021 - 16:19

The Hemp Biomass Fuel Solution:

Once widely cultivated for fiber and food, field hemp has been restricted for some decades throughout much of the world. This was largely due to it's similar appearance to it’s narcotic cousin. In 2018 the US Government federally legalized Agricultural Hemp. Cultivation is becoming more popular worldwide as a source of raw fiber, seed, oil and non-narcotic medicinal products.

Fair Use: Hemp Harvesting

In recent years another portion of the crop has drawn our interest: The inner hurd, (commonly called ‘hemp straw’) is currently considered a waste product by farmers. Hemp hurd has ratios of lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose similar to the hardwood tree species which Carbon Analytic refines to become solid fuel products.

Being an annual crop, hemp provides a very fast, annual source of fuel as a complement to tree sources. Hemp has relatively low moisture and fertility demands and is therefor well suited for growth in over-farmed or otherwise marginalized areas. Hemp is an excellent candidate for soil restoration when properly managed.

For this purpose it is best grown as part of a regenerative program designed to reclaim lost soil vitality. For example: Following a simple soil test, corrections are made for ‘ph’ including slow release organic fertilizers like rock powders. Such interventions typically raise fertility levels in both top and sub-soils for many years.

Fair Use: Mature Hemp Root System

In temperate zones, fiber hemp is sown around May 15th and harvested approximately August 15th, leaving a stubble and an extensive root system that reaches 3-4 feet in depth. These carbon rich materials are tilled into the topsoil, preparing an immediate seed bed for an over-wintering ‘green manure’ crop like red clover (who’s roots survive winter frost).

Red Clover ‘fixes’ free nitrogen from the air which it uses both for it's own growth and transfers directly to the soil through it’s roots. It also liberates many other elements from rock powders in the soil, storing them in it’s tissues along with the nitrogen. Like hemp, red clovers also have extensive root networks, sometimes burrowing 9’ or more deep! These massive root systems release carbon and nitrogen gathered from the air back into the soils where they belong. Then, just prior to planting time (for hemp), the clover is tilled under and immediately sown back to hemp, repeating the cycle.

Fair Use: Young Red Clover

Following this type of practice, the soil has constant living cover and protective mulch, guarding against erosion from sun, wind and rain. This keeps the surface absorbent, taking in rain whether heavy or scarce. The ‘tilled in’ biomass from both crops contributes to the formation of black soil or humus. While growing, these plants produce even more humus by sequestering atmospheric CO2 (carbon) in the leaves through photosynthesis. This process forms carbon rich sugars which are fed through their roots to the multiplex of soil fauna and flora, increasing humus. Humus is key because it safely stores carbon into soils. It's spongy quality holds large amounts of ground water and becomes a living buffer to critically important underground aquifer storage.

Modern combustion of petroleum fuels has added large volumes of both CO2 and water vapor from prehistoric eras. Although the phenomenon of rising carbon levels is fairly well known and studied, water vapor has captured less public attention. Combustion of petrochemicals cause the formation of water vapor and carbon gases which were not present before, to be released into contemporary ecosystems. By conservative estimate, this amounts to ocean increases over 125,000 cubic miles of water over the past 100 years, as much as up to 10% increase in ocean rise along with stored water lost to deforestation. As atmospheric temperature rises, the atmosphere increases in size, holding increasing levels of greenhouse water vapor, twice as reflective of heat that CO2. The potential for these compounds disrupting the current atmospheric and oceanic homeostasis on which human civilization currently exists is very real.

The full topic of 'greenhouse' gas accumulation from modern fuels to the atmosphere and oceans is beyond the scope of this article. It should be said however that water vapor is both a more potent ‘greenhouse’ gas than CO2 and present in much greater volume. To have stable water vapor is normal for nature's needs. Excess water vapor and oceanic accumulation works against the stability of natural processes.

Note: 'Greenhouse' is a coined term that oversimplifies the heat dynamics between Earth and space.

Water vapor quickly condenses, or rains out and runs into the oceans. There, it swells near the equator from the centripetal forces of planetary rotation and gravitational forces of the moon. Aside from the known refractory warming effects of atmospheric water vapor, meteorologists have discovered another complex and potentially hazardous outcome of over-synthesis of water from petroleum combustion: increased micro-crystalline ice is formed as vapors rises from the equator into the stratosphere over the polar regions. In higher elevations of the atmosphere, excess water vapor feeds a process called "super saturation" creating a condition where water takes on a fourth phase which is damaging to Ozone. The natural weather cycles move these increased moisture levels toward the north but mostly south pole. This in turn damages the ‘ozone layer’ above the southern pole which normally protects the earth’s surface from ultraviolet radiation. These effects continue to be one of the serious causes for concern following the elimination of industrial refrigerant gases, regulated out of use in the 70s.

When we take a more global view of regenerative agriculture as a large scale source of biomass fuel energies, we can see the value of these technologies as climate and ecosystem stabilizers in two critical ways:

Although biomass fuel consumption does create water, carbon and thermal emissions just like conventional hydrocarbon fuels, the source of these elements in the case of biomass fuels comes strictly from those already contained in the contemporary biosphere. In other words, no geological aged elements are being discharged into the atmosphere from biomass combustion, unbalancing ratios and threatening current homeostatic status. Further, Carbon Analytic energy production systems focus on converting combustion water vapor back to liquid to keep it regional at the source.

There are multiple ecological benefits of cultivating industrial hemp on a regenerative basis as outlined above. One of the main ones is it’s ability to reverse the alarming global trend called desertification.

Fair Use: Land mass degradation from desertification.

Very often, modern agricultural methods subject delicate soil systems to the harsh exposures of sun, wind, rain, poorly managed grazing and chemical interventions. The net effects include a cumulative loss in both soil permeability and water holding capacity, releasing water and carbons safely stored there into the atmosphere. Regenerative biomass farming under the Carbon Analytic model exactly reverses desertification. When practiced large scale globally, it offers effective solutions for ecosystem stability, clean energy, employment and business opportunities. In fact, the Carbon Analytic processes of refining biomass fuels and the energy conversion thereof is not only 'greenhouse' neutral, but negative. This is because our combustion technologies are clean and efficient and the regenerative farming methods for raising biomass fuels gather 'greenhouse' elements from the air and store them safely into the soil where they belong.

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Ways to Participate

tnewcomb — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 21:49:51 +0000

Ways to Participate tnewcomb Fri, 12/17/2021 - 16:49

Ways To Participate: The Biomass Solution

Justification:

In general, people show a knack for seeing plain truths as common sense. Below are some examples of common sense values supported by Biomass Fuels:

“If fossil fuels go away, there’s nothing in place to fill that gap”. Currently there are no clean, steady or on-demand alternatives. Wind, solar and hydro have a glass ceiling of about 30% while increasing new cost and risking new waste streams we already know will occur.

“As useful as fossil fuels have been (especially Natural Gas and Petroleum) they will eventually run out”. The easy reserves have been tapped. Extraction is becoming more difficult, costly and risky. As a result, prices will continue to rise.

“Burning fossil fuels has toxic consequences that need to be considered”. People know there are downsides to fossil fuel emissions which affect their lives. Whether they see this through common sense or scientific effort, people understand we need sustainable solutions.

“Solar, wind, hydro and nuclear are not practical at a scale to replace fossil fuels”. In reality, only biomass fueled technologies offer flexible and reliable solutions that are sustainable to these and other dilemmas. Refined Biomass fuels and systems deliver steady, on-demand power when and where we need it! Raising biomass is profitable, heals the environment and can be sustained indefinitely. Many peer reviews in respected scientific journals confirm we can cultivate more biomass than we need.

Below is a diagram of how Non-profit groups are formed around a Non-profit Co-op central collection.

The groups identified can access state and federal grant provisions, low cost lending, loan guarantees all as provisions available to stimulate ecological restoration.

By focusing across the regional co-op, each participating group IS the sole ownership in each coalition farm project as well as shared ownership in the co-op.

In the instance of special under-served groups, the co-op helps organize profit sharing structures if and when some may fall outside of specific ownership criteria, insuring that all participants benefit. The land owner shares in gains as well as the ecological improvements of the land / water resources over time in a continued production / sale of biomass tonnage and improved food and / or livestock production.

CA NPO guides the formation of regional co-op collectives to administer creating the other satellite associations.

The process involves identifying land owners and specific farm labor groups first to form individual non-profit organizations, (NPO).
A design for land, water and cultivation improvement focused on selective crop designs to produce biomass and food, silage or livestock production is developed with each NPO.
Local asset, equipment and logistics are identified among local farms and business, teamed in as contractual providers.
An organizational plan is developed with operating agreement and necessary filings to establish the NPO organization(s) and to gather the various funding / grant initiatives to facilitate the various organizations.
As operations begin, the Regional Co-op facilitates the exchange, delivery and storage / distribution of goods to destinations.

These formations are designed around key points of benefit recognized for state and federal grant and other funding provisions, focused first on small, local farming designs and the support of under-privileged participants, including land owners, small farms, start up farms, under-served minorities, equipment and process vendors and other key points of provision.

The designs have a higher degree of social integrity in that the organizations are not bound to a for-profit ownership or capital investment process which insures those directly involved share the greater percentage of gains rather than accumulating financial growth to separate investor structures. In many instances federal supports can even provide crop yield insurance, helping protect from seasonal short falls.

At the same time, external funding resources desiring to invest in propagating the co-op are able to offer crowd funding input, tax deductible donations or outside for-profit lending to the co-op(s) for gains or even higher volume sophisticated investment opportunity as longer-term gain. By funding groups partnered in state or federal backed lending, the outside investment benefits both shared and reduced risk.

The end result stimulates conversion of energy production away from fossil fuel toward clean, emissions negative biomass fuel-to-energy production. Carbon Analytic becomes the de facto customer of the processed biomass as the fuel source for all the energy production systems CA offers insuring market stability. At the same time those locally involved in the NPO(s) gain favorable Farmer's Market positions to sell or purchase higher quality food at reduced prices, which further extends to the local community as a whole, improving economic stability, long-term growth and especially increased nutritional benefit with shorter, local supply chain stability.

The ecological benefits of sustainable farming methods insure greater fresh water supply by restoration of local aquifer and water table resources and the removal of prior farming residues of pesticides and fertilizer overload. In addition, past water and carbon gases that have been liberated to the atmosphere are appropriately restored to plant tissues and soil humus.

All of these methods continue to be formative during the pro-tem stage of Carbon Analytic hosting the development of CA NPO as a leaders to stimulate organizations of these groups. During this time we hope to answer any questions directed to the Forums here on the site or use the Contact link to inquire directly by mail form. We respond personally to all inquiries.

Biomass Facts: Bullet Points

tnewcomb — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 21:19:40 +0000

Biomass Facts: Bullet Points tnewcomb Sat, 12/11/2021 - 16:19

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!

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Healthy Trees, Fuel and Air!

tnewcomb — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 20:18:18 +0000

Healthy Trees, Fuel and Air!

TREES TO POWER THE WORLD

Cultivated biomass refinement is the response to earlier failed efforts decades ago in energy production to use biomass as an alternative to fossil fuels.

Can we grow enough trees to support our grid and save our fossil reserves? Yes. The earth currently has only about 50% of the trees it had 200 years ago. Replanting some portion of them into carefully managed arbors makes sense on several levels: 1). Economic. 2). Fuel conservation. 3). Stabilizing ecosystems.

Trees with Pasture and Livestock.

Wouldn’t burning so much wood-sourced fuel cause pollution? No. Ultra-refined wood fuel and efficient new power mechanics from Carbon Analytic are virtually greenhouse gas free. Because the process of growing trees and other biomass sources stores excess water and CO2 into the soil, the process is NET GREENHOUSE NEGATIVE!

Is there such a thing as too much water? Let’s look at some grade school chemistry: Burning almost anything creates water vapor. This is why we see water dripping from car exhaust before they warm up. Burning petroleum pushes water vapor (and carbon) from ancient times into today's climate. Lots of it. Most of us know about the CO2 problem, but H2O is both a much higher volume greenhouse gas and has greater harmful potential. Unfortunately, it has been accumulating fast for decades without comprehensive management strategies in place.

Could well managed biomass tree arbors help control greenhouse gases? Certainly. Desertification is an unfortunate modern trend where wet areas become wetter (attracting rain) and dry ones become drier (repelling rain). At the same time oceans are rising. These phenomena are principally due to large scale logging and harmful farming methods. That and an infusion of water vapor from combustion of ancient fuels. Repopulating trees shades land surfaces from the greenhouse warming effects of infra-red solar radiation. They gather excess water and carbon from the air back into the soils as humus or ‘black soil’. Even grasses as short as 5 inches tall, anchor carbon rich humus and water into top soil to anchor from the effects of rainfall turning the soils into silt in runoff.

If we plant so many trees, where would we grow food? Alongside the trees! Our tree arbor model (called Silvopasture) allows us to raise annual hay and livestock among the trees through most of a 5-10 year harvest cycle. Trees, pasture and grazing cooperate to increase fertility, food yields and build high quality soil.

Ultra-refined biomass fuels and new power technologies from Carbon Analytic safely support the conservation of petroleum, coal, wind and solar energies using the worlds original fuel: BIOMASS!

To learn more about Carbon Analytic Tree Arbor Programs: Synergistic Arbors: Functional Overview

tnewcomb Mon, 10/25/2021 - 16:18

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