[Stoves] CO2 drawdown (Re:Jock)

[Traveller]

Jock:

Why should poor people's stoves have to worry about CO2 drawdown?

The White House just put out a United States Mid-Century Strategy FOR DEEP
DECARBONIZATION
<https://unfccc.int/files/focus/long-term_strategies/application/pdf/mid_century_strategy_report-final_red.pdf>
(November
2016).

I wish the White House all success and note that the document has no
reference to BIOCHAR, brother Ron's favorite goal. It does, however,
advocate the development and deployment of BECCS -Carbon-Beneficial Biomass
Energy plus Carbon Capture and Sequestration: "Any facility that combusts
biomass for electricity or converts biomass to fuel and captures resulting
CO2 for utilization (e.g., enhanced oil recovery) or storage in underground
reservoirs."

When biomass stove designers come up with "storage in underground
reservoirs" rather than just soil, perhaps CDM will grant them the credits
they deserve.

I am fortunately old enough to remember the late 1970s and early 1980s when
irrational exuberance led IIASA to advocate uranium ore extraction from
seawater to keep on fueling a breeder world. Other things that appear crazy
in retrospect were also advocated.

The more the world changes...

Nikhil


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On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 12:02 AM, Jock Gill <jock at jockgill.com> wrote:

> A interesting post. It fails, however, to address the issues of the
> imperative for CO2 drawdown.  The pyrolysis of biomass provides one method
> of drawdown.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jock
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
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