Lubershane: Decarbonization will trigger intense competition for waste biomass
Andy Lubershane · Climate tech’s surprising bottleneck – land access · Jun 2, 2022 · at 35:35
Andy Lubershane of Energy Impact Partners analyzes the limits of photosynthetic land access and biomass supply for carbon management on Catalyst.
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“You need new dedicated land growing crops for that biomass, and I, you know, jury's still out, right, but I'm skeptical we're going to see that happen, and what that means is actually you have a run not, not on new land, but probably a run on what's called, what is considered waste biomass, so there is a lot of Waste from forestry and from agriculture that today, some of it is just emitted as carbon, whether it's just burned directly or, you know, it degrades into carbon plus methane later. And waste biomass is much smaller in supply, but very high value when it comes to some of these carbon energy uses. And so, yeah, I do think we're going to see a lot more competition for that stuff.”
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