NON-LABILE BIOCHAR
Highly Resistent to Decomposition in Soil fOr longer Agricultural Benefits
NON-LABILE
BIOCHARHighly Resistent to Decomposition in Soil for longer Agricultural Benefits
Non-Labile (Persistent) Biochar
Our mission is to recycle biomass and waste nothing in the process. One way we achieve this is by heating and extracting biochar from woody biomass and adding it to our manure substrate. This creates a high-yield biofertilizer for regenerative agriculture. The UN Convention to Combat Desertification has been promoting biochar as a countermeasure to land degradation, and many other bodies have enthusiastically backed its use.
Non-Labile (Persistent) Biochar
HiPoint is not a biochar company. Our mission is to recycle biomass and waste nothing in the process. One way we achieve this is by heating and extracting biochar from woody biomass and adding it to our manure substrate. This creates a high-yield biofertilizer for regenerative agriculture.
The UN Convention to Combat Desertification has been promoting biochar as a countermeasure to land degradation, and many other bodies have enthusiastically backed its use.
Biochar in Our Biofertilizer
Biochar has been used for years as a soil amendment globally. At HiPoint, blending it with soil amendments will address a wide range of environmental, agricultural, and forestry challenges in this historic time of climate change.
Biochar is a means for sequestering carbon and a valuable input for agriculture. It can improve soil fertility, aid sustainable production, and reduce contamination of streams and groundwater. Biochar has proven to be a key accessible input for agriculture, can help rehabilitate degraded land, and plays a significant role in sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Some key benefits of adding biochar to soil include improving nutrient retention capacity, reducing leaching and gaseous loss, increasing nitrogen retention in soil, enhancing phosphorus availability, increasing soil pH, improving soil biological properties, and providing a significant source of plant nutrients.
Biochar in Our Fertilizer
Biochar has been used for years as a soil amendment globally. At HiPoint, blending it with soil amendments will address a wide range of environmental, agricultural, and forestry challenges in this historic time of climate change.
Biochar is a means for sequestering carbon and a valuable input for agriculture. It can improve soil fertility, aid sustainable production, and reduce contamination of streams and groundwater. Biochar has proven to be a key accessible input for agriculture, can help rehabilitate degraded land, and plays a significant role in sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Some key benefits of adding biochar to soil include improving nutrient retention capacity, reducing leaching and gaseous loss, increasing nitrogen retention in soil, enhancing phosphorus availability, increasing soil pH, improving soil biological properties, and providing a significant source of plant nutrients.
How we make Biochar
Our process involves heating woody biomass with manure to extreme temperatures, resulting in non-labile millennial biochar. We add around 8% of this biochar to our biofertilizer from the bioreactors. This percentage allows for nutrient-growth-enriched biofertilizers to increase soil pH, thereby influencing nutrient availability for plants. It also permits the substrate from the biochar which is syngas to power the bioreactors, creating an off-grid facility. This process further advances the regenerative reduction of fossil fuels in our process and creates significant opportunities to pursue carbon neutrality in our overall ESG business plan.
How we make Biochar
Our process involves heating woody biomass with manure to extreme temperatures, resulting in non-labile millennial biochar. We add around 8% of this biochar to our biofertilizer from the bioreactors. This percentage allows for nutrient-growth-enriched biofertilizers to increase soil pH, thereby influencing nutrient availability for plants. It also permits the substrate from the biochar which is syngas to power the bioreactors, creating an off-grid facility. This process further advances the regenerative reduction of fossil fuels in our process and creates significant opportunities to pursue carbon neutrality in our overall ESG business plan.
Biochar within a soil amendment gives increased crop yield and improved soil quality.
Biochar is a carbon sink that absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases. One ton of biochar absorbs 3.7 tons of carbon dioxide.
One ton of biochar offsets the annual emissions of about two passenger cars
Biochar improves the soil’s nutrient binding and water retention capacity and adds to the soil’s porosity.
Can bind/absorb hazardous chemicals and compounds, such as heavy metals and pesticides.
It has a great water retention capacity and can bind five times the amount.
OREGON R&D FACILITY
With our pending R&D project in Oregon, this is the latest collaboration between HiPoint Energy, Green Fortress Engineering and AgriPower to use biomass as a resource to create high-grade tar-free syngas to electricity to the grid and non-labile biochar for our fertilizers at commercially viable prices. Using a dry, abundant feedstock that is currently being inadequately disposed of, HiPoint Energy, Green Fortress Engineering, & AgriPower can do their part to support sustainability.
OREGON R&D FACILITY
With our pending R&D project in Oregon, this is the latest of HiPoint's collaboration with Green Fortress Engineering and AgriPower to use biomass as a resource to create hi-grade tar-free syngas to electricity to the grid and non-labile biochar for our fertilizers at commercially viable prices. Using a dry, abundant feedstock that is currently being inadequately disposed of, HiPoint Energy, Green Fortress Engineering, & AgriPower can do their part to support environmental sustainability.
What Is Biochar & Why does HiPoint add it to Biofertilizer
Biochar systems are complex and require further research and life cycle analysis to understand the opportunities and risks associated with them in developing countries. Four main factors need to be considered:
1. Impacts on soil health and agricultural productivity, such as soil pH, nutrient availability, soil moisture, soil organic matter, and the amount of biochar applied.
2. Impacts on climate change, including carbon storage and stabilization, which are the most important factors for climate change mitigation efforts based on biochar. Biomass cookstoves are significant sources of black carbon, which could have a global impact on the climate and human health. The risks of negative climate impact related to biochar lie primarily in the negative feedback that may occur during biochar production and application, such as emissions of methane and nitrous oxide during inefficient pyrolysis and degradation of soil organic matter after biochar application.
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3. Social impacts, including effects on energy, health, economics, and food security. Biochar use can reduce pressure on wooded ecosystems and decrease the burden of fuel gathering. Improved cookstoves can also reduce indoor air pollution throughout the developing world, especially for women and children. In addition, biochar systems could help buffer practitioners against crop shortages and hunger by improving crop yields or crop resilience. The energy produced from biochar could potentially be used for critical functions such as the refrigeration of vaccines, water pumping, and lighting after sunset. Risks of biochar use can include potential emission of toxins and inhalation of dust and small particulate matter.
4. Competing uses of biomass. The use of dedicated energy crops for biochar production could divert food crops for fuel production, divert arable land from food crops, and affect direct and indirect land use change. The costs and benefits must, therefore, be weighed, of leaving biomass in situ versus using it to produce biochar that is then added to the soil. Biochar is one of the few GHG reduction strategies that can actually withdraw carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. It has significant advantages but can have an overall net climate impact.
What Is Biochar & Why does HiPoint add it to Biofertilizer
Biochar systems are complex and require further research and life cycle analysis to understand the opportunities and risks associated with them in developing countries. Four main factors need to be considered:
1. Impacts on soil health and agricultural productivity, such as soil pH, nutrient availability, soil moisture, soil organic matter, and the amount of biochar applied.
2. Impacts on climate change, including carbon storage and stabilization, which are the most important factors for climate change mitigation efforts based on biochar. Biomass cookstoves are significant sources of black carbon, which could have a global impact on the climate and human health. The risks of negative climate impact related to biochar lie primarily in the negative feedback that may occur during biochar production and application, such as emissions of methane and nitrous oxide during inefficient pyrolysis and degradation of soil organic matter after biochar application.
3. Social impacts, including effects on energy, health, economics, and food security. Biochar use can reduce pressure on wooded ecosystems and decrease the burden of fuel gathering. Improved cookstoves can also reduce indoor air pollution throughout the developing world, especially for women and children. In addition, biochar systems could help buffer practitioners against crop shortages and hunger by improving crop yields or crop resilience. The energy produced from biochar could potentially be used for critical functions such as the refrigeration of vaccines, water pumping, and lighting after sunset. Risks of biochar use can include potential emission of toxins and inhalation of dust and small particulate matter.
4. Competing uses of biomass. The use of dedicated energy crops for biochar production could divert food crops for fuel production, divert arable land from food crops, and affect direct and indirect land use change. The costs and benefits must, therefore, be weighed, of leaving biomass in situ versus using it to produce biochar that is then added to the soil. Biochar is one of the few GHG reduction strategies that can actually withdraw carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. It has significant advantages, but the overall net climate impact of biochar requires a full life-cycle assessment to determine whether it is beneficial or not.