How it works
Thiazzi offers the first publicly available service to physically and permanently remove your CO2 footprint from the atmosphere. As opposed to buying tradeable emission allowances, or investing in more or less charitable "green" projects, Thiazzi focuses on the actual elimination of CO2 particles in the air, now exceeding a concentration of 410 parts per million, up from stable pre-industrial levels of around 280 ppm, and the highest in about 25 million years. To achieve a stable climate on Earth, resembling what we have enjoyed for the past twelve thousand years, a maximum CO2 concentration of about 350 ppm is adviced. For this we need to do two things: Stop burning fossile fuels, and remove existing CO2 from the air. One ppm is about 8 billion tons of CO2. If we stop emitting fossile CO2 tomorrow, we have almost 500 billion tons to clean up from the atmosphere. Thiazzi helps you do your part.
Technically, there are several ways to achieve this. Today, the most common options include chemically scrubbing CO2 gas from industry emissions, pumping the CO2 in liquid form under ground (CCS), enhanced wethering of finely grained silicate minerals, resembling natural geochemical cycles on Earth, and storing the carbon dioxide captured through naturally occuring photosynthesis. While we at Thiazzi are working on all these options, the currently most practical and cost efficient method is the last, and this is the solution we are offering you today
By simply turning biomass into stable biochar by the means of pyrolysis, the CO2 captured in the photosynthetic process, 6 H2O (water) + 6 CO2 → C6H12O6 (sugar) + 6 O2 (oxygen), is then possible to store forever underground as pure coal. There is where it came from in the first place. Every year, during spring in the northern hemisphere, the CO2 concentration in Earths atmosphere is lowered around 6 ppm due to the photosynthetic process. It then increases again as plants molder and die during fall. By turning some of this biomass into a pile of biochar, and bury it underground, we can permanently reduce the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. Particle, by particle.