Biogenic Carbon as a Transition Technology

While great strides are being made in the development of non-carbon based means of reduction such as hydrogen, this technology is not yet available on mass scale thus the use of carbon remains the best available technology.

This means that hard-to-abate sectors including those underpinning the transition to renewable energy like iron, steel and copper production will be forced to use carbon as an input for many decades to come.

However, to the extent these industries elect to switch from fossil-derived carbon to biocarbon products, the GHG emissions during this transition period can be materially reduced, and in some cases, eliminated. Further, by using clean biocarbon the industry also avoids toxic emissions related to sulphur and heavy metals that tend to present in fossil coal.

“If only half of this fossil-derived carbon was replaced with Wundowie’s biocarbon, Australia would reduce its GHG emissions by roughly 650,000 tonnes each year…”

For example, Australia’s integrated steel industry consumes roughly 425,000 tonnes of PCI coal during the production of 3mtpa of steel every year. If only half of this fossil-derived carbon was replaced with Wundowie’s biocarbon, Australia would reduce its GHG emissions by roughly 650,000 tonnes each year which is the emissions equivalent of 140,000 cars and a staggering 17 million tonnes of carbon dioxide over the period to 2050.

Whilst decarbonisation technology continues to advance, Wundowie is well placed to make a meaningful difference to GHG emissions today by harnessing the carbon from nature’s biogenic cycle to be used productively, and to the exclusion of fossil derived carbon, the key driver of climate change.

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