Solve for X: Mike Cheiky on negative carbon liquid fuels

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The fact is that plants have a carbon-negative phase - a time during which they remove carbon from the atmosphere. But they give it back in another phase, unfortunately. What if there was a way to take plant waste (like corn husks) and turn it into bio fuels? What if this also removed carbon from our atmosphere? What if the same process also produced a substance that would help turn deserts back into productive crop land? What if this process could be done on an industrial scale but also could be made self-contained in a small village so that farmers all over the world could get the economic benefits of producing bio fuels with their agricultural waste and simultaneously help clean our atmosphere? Too good to be true?

Mike Cheiky is the President and Founder of CoolPlanet Energy Systems, which is developing carbon negative fuels.

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[Jonathan Breckenridge]

I find it interesting that you solved one of the fundamental issues with planetary colonization. with this process you can create your own fuel and food and terraform the ground so that more will grow. Very interesting.

[Savannah Roach-Cinecoe]

Very Cool, the produced hybrid energy can also be harnessed to provide desaltinated water from Oceans. As a matter of fact if we Arabs can do that (desaltinate ocean water into drinking water) for their populations, why can't USA farmers do it here or anyone anywhere?

[Stephen Brown]

Acquiring 2%, 3% of the worlds lands mass in the next five years, is going to be a challenge....

[stuffedk]

It seems like there must be a catch though. How much does it cost?

[edferda]

1MM$ power plant on 1000 people village. 1000$ per person, that seem great to me.

[Justin Thomas]

Why cant everyone see this video? This is a great idea.

[Erich Knight]

Please view my presentation and slides of the opening talk at the 2012 USBI Biochar conference in Sonoma California.

Google;

"Carbon Conservation for Home, Health, Energy & Climate"

( and go to; Slides and Presentations tab )

For a full report covering major developments at the conference across the whole Biochar industry,

Google;

"Sonoma 2012 Biochar Conference Report;" CP has the lead sponsorship for the University of Massachusetts 2013, fourth, USBI Biochar Conference, October, 2013

[keystothebox]

As a skeptic, I have studied this quite extensively but it sounds like you are believe propaganda. This natural phenomenon is commonly called called climate oscillation -- look it up on Wikipedia.

[Robert Folkerts]

That is a fascinating viewpoint. It contradicts nearly all known climate science. You could have a the climate science equivalent of the Copernican Revolution on your hands. Just image the KeysToTheBox Climate Revolution, you could be immortalized in science text books for centuries - If only you had some data on your side to convince the skeptics.

[Robert Folkerts]

The Holocene is old hat. Behold the NeoCarboniferous.

[Dolan Halbrook]

How does that matter if we're going to have to deal with its repercussions either way?

[ElectroSceptic]

where do i appy for these jobs, they sound great