How can Carbonscape make charcoal?
For millennia, the process of manufacturing charcoal has remained relatively unchanged. Since this time there have been many applications for charcoal but because it burns hotter and cleaner than wood, the greatest use has often been as a fuel. Excitingly, Carbonscape has developed cutting edge techniques and world leading intellectual property around the technology and processes, revolutionising the conversion of wood waste and other biomass into charcoal. Our proprietary industrial microwave technology means that in spite of the energy used during production, the carbon captured draws down significantly more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it produces. Each industrial-scale unit converts 40–50% of wood debris into charcoal; one tonne of carbon dioxide can be fixed as charcoal per day. By converting carbon in organic material to charcoal, it can be then put into the ground where it does the most good.
