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For Sale: A Promise to Remove Invisible Gas

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A map of the organizations working towards sucking billions of tons of carbon dioxide directly out of the atmosphere.

For Sale: A Promise to Remove Invisible Gas In a select few corn fields after a harvest, the unwanted stalks, leaves, and cobs are fed into a storage container on the back of a long-haul truck. These agricultural wastes won’t be hitting the road in their loose, fluffy state though. The storage container doesn’t start empty. It contains a complex chemical machine fine-tuned to efficiently convert the corn detritus into three chemical compounds: biochar, bio-oil, and syngas. The biochar, a solid, is scattered back onto the farm fields to improve field fertility. The syngas is, in part, used as f

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