Despite all its plant and animal life above the surface of the earth, the rain forests in Amazon are amazingly poor in the nutrients needed to grow food. Thousands of years ago, the indigenous peoples in the region have solved this problem by creating “Terra Bretta” from Table and charcoal scraps And entered it away in the hostile soil.
Today, this is the old one of the ingenuity It is a strong climate solution. With the growth of vital mass such as trees and crops, they flip the carbon in its leaves and branches. Heat the biomass without consuming it completely and turning into a pure carbon almost known as biomus, which farmers soak in fertilizer or fertilizers “to charge” with nutrients, then add to the soil. At one time, this improves crop yields and keeps better with water, all during the carbon celibacy away from the atmosphere. It is expected that the increasing demand from farmers and major companies will push the global market to vital coal from $ 600 million two years ago 3 billion dollars this year.
The annoying question, though, is exactly the time when the carbon remains in the soil. A new study adds to an increasing group of evidence that scientists reduce the power of survival in biomus, which means that technology is actually a more powerful way to store carbon than previously believed. Hamed Sani, professor of organic carbon geological chemistry at the University of Arheus in Denmark, author of the book “Ham Sani”, Professor of Chemical Chemistry, organic carbon geological chemistry at the University of Arhus in Denmark, author of “Arahus”, author of “Aarhus”, author of the leadership of the author of “Aarhus”, author of “Arhus”, author of “Arhos” and author The leadership of the author “Arahus”, author of “Arahus”, author of “Arahus”, author of “Arahus”, author of “Arahus” and author of “Arahus”: “I am talking about more than 90 percent of the easiest alive years.” paper Posted in Biochar magazine. The research indicates that biomus is much more flexible than the researchers currently think. “The current model we are talking about is that 30 percent of all vital charcoal that is produced will disappear in 100 years.”
The darkening of the period with which biomus can be adhered to the carbon is necessary for Carbon removal credit Industry, where companies such as Microsoft and Google Fund share the carbon out of the air. These credits arrived 8 million metric tons of carbon In 2024, 78 percent of the previous year jump. So scientists have been conducting experiments monitoring how biomedic microbes deteriorate over a few years in the soil, then extracted this throughout the long time scales. Carry out this type of modeling, the unnecessary ICRC on climate change and other research groups was considered that after a century, between a century, between a century, between a century, between a century 63 and 82 % From vital charcoal it will remain on the ground.
“The new research opens this 1000 -year -old argument.”
The decisive idea of Sani was a naturally occurring substance called inrtinite, a stable organic carbon form in the Earth’s crust, and it is formed when forest forests and burned steps are formed. BIOCAR is just a result of human repetition of that process: if the biomass is sufficiently high temperatures – more than 1000 degrees Fahrenheit is perfect – carbon must turn into a substance that fights soil microbes in order to digest them, which is how charred plants in Inertinite have a long time enough to defend. As far as humans eat food off dishes instead of eating dishes themselves, bacteria and fungi choose to eat organic matter such as leaves on biomus. Sani said: “It seems as if you had a beautiful piece of cake and bring it to us on a plate, we will eat the cake,” Sani said. “If we are very hungry, we eat it much faster. But still, we will not eat the painting.”
As far as they survived the boundaries on vast extensions of geological time, biomus should be able to continue for thousands of years, SANEI and Coauuthors. The fact that scientists find proper vital charcoal in the old Terra Britta in Amazon indicates that it is happening. Thomas A. Trabold, the sustainability scientist at the Rochster Institute of Technology and CEO of Cinterest, a company that develops biological charcoal technology: “Biochar is already a convincing solution.” “This data only indicates that the benefits are greater than we already assumed.”
Not all vital charcoal is created equally. To one, the wooden biomass turns into biomus better because it contains a carbon content higher than lush materials or grass. The higher the temperatures used in the manufacturing process, the higher the chance to stay in the soil in the soil. The local climate is also important, as the warmer soil leads to more microbial activity that can lead to the deterioration of vital coal.
However, by carefully controlling vital coal production, companies can produce a substance they know containing a certain amount of carbon. This becomes a carbon removal balance, which companies buy to show that they are investing in removing carbon from the air (even if you do not do everything in their power to reduce their emissions). Most carbon removal assets have a 100 -year -old standard frame, according to Erika Dura, who leads the climate team in Riverse, a carbon -based platform in France. But if scientists are now talking about vital coal that lasts for thousands of years instead of centuries, this makes it more attractive to companies that buy credits.
“It was not very interesting to issue a 500 -year -old biological removal balance, because the model will tell us that there is not much after a long time.” “Now, the new research opens this 1,000 -year argument.”
This would put vital charcoal equally with other carbon removal techniques such as direct air capture, as giant machines absorb the carbon from the air and pump it under the ground. But direct air capture is still expensive, and technology is not anywhere on a large scale to put a significant drain in carbon emissions. Biochar, on the other hand, is a fixed technique that has been used for thousands of years, able to improve agriculture, and according to this new research, carbon carbon is far from thousands of years.
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