HCCAS Ltd

Why capture CO2 at the emitter?

Because once CO2 is out of the stack, it's gone. Earth's atmosphere is 11 km high, and CO2 diffuses right through. Far better to capture it at the much-higher concentrations found in emitter flue gases. However, CarbonGood can also operate as Direct Air Capture.

Too good to be true?

We don't think so. The foundation is already in widespread use - many commercial greenhouses burn fuel to MAKE CO2, which is taken up by the biomass to increase yield by 50%. Turning that on its head, 50% more biomass has converted 50% more carbon into cellulose.Cellulose doesn't lock-up carbon - the carbon is released again when the biomass is consumed or decays.BUT - biocharring it does..

Hold on... isn't this just an excuse to keep on burning fossil fuels?What about decarbonizing?

We can't decarbonize fast enough. So CarbonGood is a way to buy ourselves the TIME to decarbonize or substitute, so that essential infrastructure can operate until we've fixed it.Decarbonizing is essential - to keep our Earth habitable, we must stop burning fossil fuels.But, we can't do that overnight without crucifying civilization.Fossil fuel is so integral to our societies that we need time to work our way out of.

What about "negative carbon" then?

CarbonGood can't make an emitter negative carbon - doing so would need it to consume more CO2 than the emitter produced, which is impossible. But it could make the area negative carbon (and BECCS with CarbonGood may in fact offer true negative-carbon). The area around us has its own natural carbon sink in the form of trees, shrubs and other biomass.