Savanna carbon: great plains?
…here. As an approximate breakdown, 33% of the CO2 is stored in soils, 33% in living woody tissue, and the remainder is distributed across roots, dead wood, shrubs and litter….
Global hydrogen: market breakdown?
…to treat wood, for fuel additives and in industrial intermediates. Again, switching to green H2 inflates cost by 5x. We remain more excited by blue- and bio-methanol decarbonization pathways (note…
CO2 intensity of materials: an overview?
…the data-file. We have estimated separately the CO2 intensity of different wood fuels, crop production, how it varies with fertilizer application, palm oil. All of our biofuels research is here….
European gas: anatomy of an energy crisis?
…gas itself (-1% YoY), manufacturing food products (-6%) and auto production (-6%). The biggest reductions in gas demand were refineries (-41%) and wood products (-26%) because both can readily switch…
Formaldehyde production: the economics?
…in making urea-formaldehyde resins, which in turn are used to make fibre-board wood products (e.g., MDF); in other adhesive products (e.g., as might be used in producing wind turbine blades);…
Finnish forests: a two billion ton CO2 case-study?
…have ever encountered on the costs of forest management (across 20 line items), harvesting practices and realized pricing for different categories of wood. Carbon credentials are calculated on pages 11-12,…
Energy shortages: medieval horrors?
…used. Heavy harvesting reduced woodlands to 7% of England’s land area (they have recovered to 13% today). Winter’s skyline was particularly bleak, as no evergreens have yet been introduced from…
Reforestation in Estonia: six months in?
…near-identical fungi — one translating as “delicious wood champignon” and the other translating, more ominously, as “the angel of death”. The purpose of this short note is a progress-update on…
UK reforestation projects: 25 case studies?
This data-file reviews 25 examples of forestation projects in the United Kingdom, which have followed the UK Woodland Carbon Code. $499.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Our conclusion is that the…
Origin Materials: bio-plastics breakthrough?
…building on a packaging material (PET) partnership that goes back to 2016. $399.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Its ambition is to use wood residues to create carbon-negative plastics, cost-competitively with…