What you see here is a pile of 29 tons of basalt dust, one truckload. Over the next few years this basalt will suck 9 tons of CO2 from the ambient air when the dust is simply spread on half a hectare or one hectare of cropland. With this pile one average citizen of Germany is becoming climate neutral.
Read MoreIn this short paper we would like to explain why the ultimate goal of our involvement with Project Carbdown is to develop cheap, electronic sensors for measuring the weathering of rock dusts in croplands.
Read MoreWe recently published a long blog post with our learnings of the first year. These learnings lead to an additional, updated experiment that we will set up in early 2022, the Carbdown XXL Lysimeter Project!
Read MoreProject Carbdown, our science project aimed at measuring the CO₂ sequestration by enhanced weathering with rock dust on croplands, has been going on for a year now. It is time to look at the results of the first year, draw some conclusions and adapt the ongoing experiments accordingly.
After a short introduction this article summarizes our learnings and conclusions. These will lead to some changes to our ongoing experiments and have also triggered the development of a new, additional experiment, the “Carbdown XXL-Lysimeter Experiment” that we will announce in a few days.
Read More“Enhanced Weathering: What you need to know.” Youtuber Patrick Niedermayer has created a new explainer video about enhanced weathering!
Read MorePaessler AG has published a nice video and case-study on how we use their PRTG software to monitor soil and environmental parameters in our enhanced weathering experiments with basalt and olivine in several locations in Europe.
Read MoreSix months ago we started working for Project Carbdown on our fields in Larissa (Greece) as well as in Fürth and in Bramstedt (Germany). This blog is our photo album of what happened since then.
Read MoreYoutuber Patrick Niedermayer has created a great explainer video about enhanced weathering with basalt and about Project Carbdown.
Read MoreKurzbeschreibung Project Carbdown: Klimaschutz mit negativen Emissionen durch beschleunigte Verwitterung
Read MoreThe weathering of rock permanently binds CO₂ from the air and thus removes it from the atmosphere. Can this be used to mitigate climate change? For a few months now, we have been preparing a scientific project together with several scientists and our partner Fieldcode in which we want to accelerate and measure the weathering of rocks, in order to possibly expand the toolbox for climate protection.
Today we are proud to announce: Project Carbdown.
Durch die Verwitterung von Gestein wird CO₂ aus der Luft permanent gebunden und so der Atmosphäre entzogen. Können wir damit etwas gegen den Klimawandel tun? Seit einigen Monaten bereiten wir zusammen mit einigen Wissenschaftlern und unserem Partner Fieldcode ein wissenschaftliches Projekt vor, bei dem wir Gesteinsverwitterung beschleunigen und vermessen wollen, um möglicherweise damit den Werkzeugkasten des Klimaschutzes zu erweitern.
Heute stellen wir also vor: Project Carbdown.
Read MoreA few days ago I had the chance to talk to Professor Dr. Jelle Bijma about the climate crisis and the enhanced weathering project that we are currently setting up together with several other people.
We are preparing our blog. Please check back later.
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