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       Biochar is defined as charcoal placed in soil as an overall soil health enhancement. Often, this use of biochar is viewed as a significant carbon dioxide removal (CDR) means. 

 

This proposal offers the view that marine derived biochar, and it's ancillary technologies, addresses better than any other technology suite, a number of today’s most critical global problems such as:

 

- The need to rapidly reduce atmospheric and oceanic CO2 levels.

 

- The need for improving soils and agricultural output through natural pathways.

 

- The need for carbon negative biofuels which can compete with FFs at both the price and volume levels.

 

The IPCC (WG3) states that the upstream biomass supply needed for global scale climate change mitigation, through Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Sequestation (BECCS), is a limiting factor. And, the Global Carbon Budget Project (see 'Picture1.png') shows land-use changes already in the emissions range. Vast scale oceanic production of biomass can address this need for additional biomass/biochar/biofuels.  

 

Also, this mariculture method produces multiple non-char  commodities such as biofuels/ food/feed/organic fertilizer/polymers and freshwater. 

 

This protocol uses extant technologies within existing international treaty provisions yet on a truly vast scale. 

 

Briefly, vast scale oceanic biomass farming, which can provide biochar and biofuels, is profoundly synergistic.

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