Takachar - biochar production live demonstration
Come see a live demonstration of a continuous and portable (towable on the back of a pick-up truck) biochar production prototype on an actual farm near Novato!
The Takachar reactor enables mobile, on-site conversion of crop and forest residues directly into carbon-negative biochar, thereby eliminating the logistical costs (and carbon emission penalties) associated with hauling loose, wet, and bulky biomass residues over long distances for centralized conversion.
Due to space availability and safety considerations (you will be spending time outdoors, rain or shine, close to an operational thermochemical reactor), pre-registration is required. To avoid unregistered guests popping up and overwhelming our staffing, we will provide the full location and arrival details (with free parking) upon approval of your pre-registration.
About Takachar
Takachar’s vision is to dramatically increase the amount of biomass (crop and forest residues) economically converted into useful carbon-based products. Most biomass residues are loose, wet, and bulky, making them difficult and expensive to collect and transport to a centralized conversion process. As such, many rural communities are shut out from the benefits of the bioeconomy, and their only recourse is to burn their residues in open air, which creates significant air pollution and even catastrophic wildfires.
Takachar is building small-scale, low-cost, portable systems that can latch onto the back of tractors and pick-up trucks to deploy to rural, hard-to-access areas to locally upgrade and densify the residues on-site into higher-value, carbon-based products such as chemicals, biofuels, and biochar-based fertilizers.
Our impacts include income and job creation in rural areas, as well as mitigation of CO2 emission and air pollution associated with conventional open-air biomass residue burning. In North American West Coast, improved vegetation management of non-merchantable residues may also mitigate the risks of catastrophic wildfires.
Takachar is a winner of Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Fellowship, Elon Musk’s XPRIZE Carbon Removal, and Prince William’s inaugural Earthshot Prize. Takachar is also a proud carbon removal credit supplier to Klarna Bank and WRLD Foundation through Milkywire.
By participating in this activity, you agree to assume all the associated risks.