biomass-based CDR
3 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 5, 2022 by Ryan Orbuch · across every show →
Everything said about biomass-based CDR, oldest first
May 5, 2022 negative
Orbuch: Removing biomass for CDR severely depletes ecosystem nitrogen and phosphorus
“It's not like the plants are just like creating a block of carbon. Like there's nitrogen and phosphorus and iron and other stuff in there. And if you're taking that out of the cycle, you're taking the nutrients out in ratio with the carbon. Right. In contrast,…”
Jan 19, 2024 bearish
Kann: Novel biomass CDR ideas carry severe feedstock and scalability risks
“I see a lot of novel ideas around biomass-based CDR, and every one of them scares me specifically because of the question of where is the feedstock going to come from, how is it going to scale, and are there going to be a bunch of negative side effects when th…”
Jan 19, 2024 neutral
Cabiyo: Biomass CDR accounting must be measured at regional ecosystem scales
“What we came to in this report is that you should be looking at sort of a regional, like, ecosystem-defined scale, where you have you know, maybe it's the size of, like, a small U.S. State, where you have a kind of ecologically continuous forest and you have, …”