Kann: Scaling biomass technologies will face intense competition for feedstock
Shayle Kann · Shayle’s “ask me anything” episode · May 12, 2022 · at 19:51
Shayle Kann explains the supply chain and economic bottlenecks that carbon removal and biofuel startups face when sourcing waste biomass.
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“Anything that uses biomass as it scales up at some point is going to compete with alternative uses for that biomass. So if you're trying to source exclusively waste biomass, you need to be the best solution for whoever holds the keys to that waste biomass, be it a farmer, whoever's doing the forestry or whatever, such that they're going to sell to you or give to you Their waste biomass, because alternately they could do one of these other things with it, which means either you need to be the most lucrative solution for it, or you need to have locked up the supply chain somehow.”
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