Rainbow Bee Eater’s sole purpose is the removal of atmospheric carbon dioxide at large distributed scale with sustainable benefits to the environment, community and economy.
ECHO2, the first commercial process that we have developed, produces low cost, hydrogen-rich Syngas and high-quality Biochar from organic residues such as agricultural crop and timber wastes that would otherwise be burned or land-filled.
Biochar improves the performance of farming soils, composts, fertilisers, animal feeds and of building and construction materials.
Biochar is recognised by the IPCC as one of three scalable and low cost natural methods of carbon drawdown, along with soil carbon and afforestation.
High temperature (+550C) biochar such as ECHO2 produces, when applied to soils, locks up atmospheric carbon dioxide as ‘inertinite’, a very stable form of carbon, for millions of years.
The ECHO2 Process
“For industrial users of natural gas or LPG, the cost of the hydrogen rich syngas from your ECHO2 module is likely to be ~$0/Gj.”
