You Should Care About Carbon Margins
This is part of a series in which I badger the CDR industry into taking Woody Biomass Storage (WBS) more seriously. Today I describe why you should consider the importance of “Carbon Margins.” In business a “Profit Margin” is a way of identifying how profitable a business is. For example, you would say the net […]
Woody Biomass Storage vs. Kontiki Biochar
Statistician George Box famously stated “All models are wrong but some are useful.” I present here a simplified (read, “wrong”) model intended to contextualize the usefulness of Woody Biomass Storage (WBS). I hope scientists and researchers will come along and make similar models that are equally “useful” but less “wrong”. Additionally, my mentors at Airminers […]
The Time Value of Emissions Should Be a Thing
We should agree that a unit of carbon emissions today is worse than the same unit of carbon emissions in the future, especially the distant future. This is true for several reasons: So, from a variety of perspectives, it’s better to emit in the future than to emit today. If you had to choose between […]
Keep CDR Quality High
Hello Woodcachers, it is great to get on this blog and meet you. My name is Whit Childs, and I am the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at this bootstrappin’, carbon dioxide removin’, waste-wood buryin’ outfit. I’m stepping up on my soapbox to speak on carbon neutrality and why this well-intentioned but ill-fitting label may hinder […]
MRV in Woody Biomass Storage
Acronyms! I’m absolutely sick of acronyms! Every time I turn around there is another acronym. GWP? TRL? TEA? LCA? CBP? WBS? TSB? The list goes on. Over time they become more familiar, but, we should all remember: Knowing a Three Letter Acronym (TLA) when another person does not, is not a badge of honor. It […]