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27 Nov 2024 | Peter Reinhardt
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The Charm Underground is a monthly series sharing our progress & learnings as we scale carbon removal to gigatonne scale. If you’d like to get The Charm Underground in your inbox, subscribe below.
Happy Thanksgiving-eve! We’ve been cooking up some bio-oil and fun updates this holiday season. We’re grateful for your support and trust as we scale up carbon removal.
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From our fam to yours, wishing you a Thanksgiving filled with love, laughter, and gratitude.
Based on the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies, Tyler Matthews and his family run Altitude Forestry, a small business with a big mission, working tirelessly to protect the local community from the devastating effects of wildfires. Altitude Forestry focuses on forest thinning & restoration, wildfire mitigation, and creating defensible spaces for rural homeowners.
Once Altitude’s work is done, contractors need a place to take excess woody biomass so it doesn’t fuel future fires. Unfortunately, there aren’t markets for most of this biomass, and it often burns instead – this is where Charm comes in to help solve the overabundance of woody biomass.
Watch the full video here to learn more how Altitude and Charm play a role in helping to address wildfire mitigation in the local Colorado community.
Meanwhile in Kansas … Charm is back in production!
This past week, we delivered another 75 metric tons of carbon-rich, bio-oil deep underground where it will be permanently sequestered for thousands of years. Credits will be issued over the coming months after verification via our partnership with Isometric.
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Pictured here: Charmer Colt injecting bio-oil underground.
How does a former corporate accountant end up at a carbon removal startup? Get to know Charm’s powerhouse talent as we feature team member Tommy this month on “Meet the Charmers”.
Learn more about his journey into the carbon removal space and his favorite part about working at Charm!
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Last week, we hit an exciting milestone with the introduction of the first bipartisan technology neutral tax credit for CDR. Introduced by U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), the Carbon Dioxide Removal Investment Act creates a pathway for new economic development and investment by helping CDR technologies grow.
If passed, this bill would help Charm create jobs, plug orphan wells, and support wildfire prevention work by continuing to innovate and grow our operations. In Colorado alone, we’ve more than tripled our workforce in the last year, and we’re excited to continue that growth.
Learn more from Senator Bennet’s press release, The Carbon Removal Alliance’s fact sheet, and be sure to follow news from our residential policy expert, Nora Cohen Brown!
Nature’s article on the over-reliance of land and nature-based solutions
Carbon Herald’s piece on the UK government’s plans for launching a cross-border carbon adjustment mechanism (CBAM) in January 2027
Nature’s article on the importance of durability for CO2 removal
Bloomberg’s piece on Microsoft and Royal Bank of Canada’s bet on new approach to carbon cleanup
WSJ’s COP29 piece on private sector as key to finding $2.4 trillion worth of green finance
WSJ’s COP29 piece on U.N. negotiators taking key steps to global carbon deal
CNBC’s piece on Range Energy’s race to electrify big rigs
Bloomberg’s piece on BlackRock and Block funding major sustainable aviation fuel deal
And that’s a wrap for November! Make sure to subscribe to get The Charm Underground in your inbox every month.
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Peter Reinhardt
CEO
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Bio-oil is produced through fast pyrolysis of waste biomass, then transported to an injection well, prepared for injection, and pumped underground. In the US these injection wells are regulated under EPA Underground Injection Control. The process effectively takes atmospheric CO₂, captures it in biomass, converts the biomass to a liquid similar to crude oil but with half the energy content, and injects it into rock formations that have stored crude oil for hundreds of millions of years. In the coming months we plan to publish a white paper documenting this new method in detail.
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Shaun Meehan
Chief Scientist
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Bio-oil is produced through fast pyrolysis of waste biomass, then transported to an injection well, prepared for injection, and pumped underground. In the US these injection wells are regulated under EPA Underground Injection Control. The process effectively takes atmospheric CO₂, captures it in biomass, converts the biomass to a liquid similar to crude oil but with half the energy content, and injects it into rock formations that have stored crude oil for hundreds of millions of years. In the coming months we plan to publish a white paper documenting this new method in detail.
Humanity has emitted hundreds of gigatonnes of CO₂. Now you can put it back underground.
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