Bioroot Energy is developing cradle-to-cradle energy opportunities.
We turn old carbons such as trash and biomass, coal and natural gas into biodegradable liquid fuel. This fuel blends seamlessly with all types of gasoline, diesel and coal to improve combustion efficiency and dramatically lower tailpipe and smokestack emissions.
Why is this important? Simple. We won’t have a cleaner environment or a stable energy outlook until we address fundamental problems with fossil fuels. We must address hydrocarbon pollution and emissions, and carbon waste management, in tandem or pass the problems of hydrocarbon economics, rising seas, warming temperatures and a thoroughly polluted world, off to the next generation.
We cannot meet the world’s growing liquid energy needs or solve environmental problems with 20th century-style cradle-to-grave economics fueled by petroleum and coal.With the rise of China and India, this toxic and dangerous economic scenario is now playing out at world scale, and the planet’s environment can only continue its alarming decline if we humans persist in business as usual.
We also cannot grow our way to energy independence. Ethanol interests have shaped the renewables dialog for decades, limiting the discussion to single-alcohol fuels like ethanol, conveniently, made from corn. This year, we’ve used 39 percent of America’s corn crop to make ethanol. This is sustainable? We must move beyond ethanol.
We will build a carbon bridging pollution solution that makes today’s gasoline, diesel and coal stocks far cleaner burning, which greatly reduces greenhouse gas emissions. To do this, we must successfully convert carbon wastes and fossil resources into clean fuel and blend it into petroleum and coal at scale to complete the circle of value: Turning old carbons with little or no value into products (clean fuels) that have great market value and are completely biodegradable.
There is a profound energy, economic and environmental connection to the trash and wastes we humans generate daily.
- Climate change/Global warming
- Energy security
- Energy price volatility
- Toxic oil spills, coal waste spills
- Emissions from petroleum and coal combustion
- Increasing global demand for energy
- Decreasing fossil fuel supplies
- Groundwater contamination from landfills
- Groundwater contamination from “fracking” natural gas
- Emissions from waste incineration and open burning
What can we do about this problem set? Plenty, and it starts with you, your trash and your community’s involvement.
 It all adds up
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Your share of America’s trash footprint? Currently it’s 4.5 – 6 pounds of trash per day. |
But wait, there’s much, much more: The calculation by the EPA does not include hazardous waste, commercial waste, industrial waste, sewer sludge, and fossil carbon feedstocks such as stranded or flared natural gas/methane, tar sands, coal slag, or petroleum coke.
Not done yet! Now add what nature generates as non-crop biomass, i.e., the woody biomass (leaves, needles, barks, branches, small diameter trees) that can be sustainably harvested from roadsides, forests and private woodlands and wildland-urban interfaces to this figure.
Woody, non-crop biomass from forest thinning projects and other lands is most often piled and burned. All that smoke and CO2 goes into the atmosphere, and on public lands it costs taxpayer money to fund the projects. America’s forest lands need tending to remove beetle-killed trees, reduce fuel loads, and lower the risk of catastrophic wildfire.
CO2 emissions from 50,000 coal-fired power plants worldwide are the most concentrated source of greenhouse gases. What if all those tons of CO2 going up the stack became clean liquid energy, along with improving the performance of coal stock that is no longer incinerated, but gasified and converted to electricity in a closed-loop process with almost no emissions?
Trash, tires, coal, petroleum coke, non-crop biomass, methane, it’s all good “carbonaceous” feedstock.
The world won’t run short of raw material because carbon is everywhere in myriad form.
