flow earth offers to remove your annual CO2 emissions, without an annual cost.
We remove CO2 from the atmosphere with fast growing grasses that are converted to biochar for 1,000+ years of permanent storage.
The enriched soils subsequently support biodiverse farms that continue to capture CO2 while
providing the income streams that finance carbon removal contracts.
flow earth offers to remove your annual CO2 emissions, without an annual cost.
We remove CO2 from the atmosphere with fast growing grasses that are converted to biochar for 1,000+ years of permanent storage.
The enriched soils subsequently support biodiverse farms that continue to capture CO2 while providing the income streams that finance carbon removal contracts.
1. Contract with us to
The most affordable and scalable method of CO2 removal is establishing C4 grasses on marginal land in order to build new soils or to regenerate harmed farmland.
While only 5% of the world’s biomass are C4 plants, they account for 23% of all terrestrial carbon storage. Newly planted grass can outperform the CO2 removal capacity of newly planted trees by a factor of 10 to 1, measured over a 10 year period.
Below ground, extensive grass root systems deposit carbon in the soil through mycelium networks. We only count what permanently remains in the ground. The above ground biomass is subjected to industrial scale pyrolysis to become biochar, for 1,000+ years of permanent storage when it is returned to the earth as a soil enhancer.
As explained in this excerpt from a BBC documentary, C4 grasses can grow 4 meters tall in just 3 months, allowing for two, and sometimes three, harvests per years
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The family of Oak trees includes the ‘Live Oak’ species, which has the highest carbon sequestration capacity of any tree in the world. Different species of Oak also grow in temperate zones, which means we can include projects in Europe and the United States. Oak can store carbon for centuries.
2. Grasses are transformed into biochar to
We intend to store carbon in Teak in three ways; 1) by allowing earmarked trees to continue growing for centuries, 2) as building material and furniture, and 3) by converting the branches and other Teak bioproducts into biochar. Teak plantations typically need 24 years to reach commercially viable size, to then become valuable wood products that last for 75 years. The total carbon removal period is therefore starting at 100 years. All side products and “waste” during Teak processing is then converted to biochar for 1,000+ years permanent storage by adding to soils on farms and in forests.
Our main goal with Oak is to create new « old growth forests » and to store the removed carbon for centuries in living trees. Along the way there will be partial harvests of Oak (thinning) to become building material or furniture, while the forestry residues are once again subjected to pyrolysis for 1,000+ years of permanent storage. Starting in year 5 these forests will provide an income from the harvest of valuable side products.
3. The healed soils become
We are currently facing a food and fuel crisis, in addition to the well known climate crisis. By enhancing soils on existing farms and by creating new farms on marginal land, we will increase the yields of future food production.
Biochar is well known to increase water retention in soils, increase crop yields and to lower the need for nitrogen fertilizer, thus lowering GHG emissions from farms.
There is an ever increasing demand for biomass derived fibres in the market place to replace carbon intensive building and production materials. Hemp composites can be processed to become stronger than steel.
After years of research and development we have solved the serious ethical and commercial issues that have plagued the existing production pathways for renewable liquid fuels. We do not use food crops as feedstock for future fuel production, and our process is proven at industrial scale. Our final fuels will be carbon negative based on an already validated (ISO 14064) full Life Cycle Analysis (LCA).
As the current energy crisis in Europe has forced many countries to restart decommissioned coal power plants, there is an urgent need for a carbon negative solid fuel. The same goes for the very large market for burning wood pellets.
Recent studies have shown that many wood pellets come from old growth forests, and that they therefore have an emissions profile similar to fossil coal. We will aim to provide grass based Carbon Negative Fuel (CNF) in such use cases.
Skymining® process is backed by an ISO 14064 validation by DNV that confirms the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) sequestration capacity of our projects.
We are facing multiple existential crises that seem to have a single root cause; we lost reciprocity between society and the nature. Our mission is to restore this reciprocity.
By giving the carbon in our CO2 emissions back to heal our soils, the earth will give back more. The ability of nature, over time, to turn a single apple into 100 apple trees, and only one ton of grass into 100 tons, is the miracle that can stop global warming, restore our ecosystems and provide for all of our needs.
We see a future where we create abundance through reciprocity, instead of taking.
Trust & transparency
Carbon Content (Infrared)
Regular view
Biomass density
The healing of the earth, the expansion of farming areas and the total carbon removal from the atmosphere are continuously measured and verified through satellite imaging.
Modern satellites capture more than photo images, they also scan other light frequencies that can measure carbon sequestration volumes and biomass coverage. This satellite data is then calibrated against local soil samples and sometimes local drone scans.
These advanced technologies provide the needed evidence and documentation to support our client’s ESG reporting and carbon accounting.
(Actual images from one of our projects)
Carbon Content (Infrared)
Regular view
Biomass density
Our land restoration projects are being digitized, whereby project ownership and all CO2 removal credits are entered into an immutable public ledger for complete transparency. This ensures that no part of any project, nor its carbon removal quantities, can be double-counted.
The collected data will be uploaded onto a public “Distributed Ledger Technology” (DLT), where we plan to use the open source, permissioned IBM Hyperledger.
For financial institutions and private investors, project ownership will be organized through a fully regulated financial token (security token) which we plan to list on the Swiss SDX or similar exchange, as an IDO (Initial Digital Offering) to provide future liquidity for the previously illiquid asset class of regenerative farming and forestry.
Slowing deforestation
Our process is the world’s only holistic solution that deals directly with the three main reasons for deforestation:
By regenerating soils and bringing back marginal and harmed land to food production, we reduce pressure on forests to provide farmland, all while creating alternative fibres and alternative heating and cooking fuels to replace wood.
Organic Food & Plant protein
The immediate priority is to produce healthy and nutritious organic food to support local communities and their economy. The large scale priority is our goal to become a world premier supplier of organically grown plant proteins to support the rising plant-based protein industry, as industrial meat production is the second largest contributor to climate change after burning fossil fuels.
Thriving Communities
Healthy soils are often the difference between conflict and peace, and in creating viable and thriving communities in areas suffering from degraded and marginal land – we will also address migration and import dependency. We envision a world where we all reconnect to nature, by supporting communities that are already connected to the land, and who are our collective guardians of nature.
Organic Fibers
The first priority is to produce new, sustainably grown fibres for the textile industry to replace unsustainable cotton and oil based polyester. The second priority is to use organically grown fibres as feedstock to produce biodegradable plastics to halt the destruction of nature, rivers and oceans through plastic and micro-plastic pollution.
Satellite and drone monitoring
50 tons of carbon negative fuel
According to our ISO 14064 Validation, each hectare of C4 grassland can produce 50 tons1 of solid Carbon Negative Fuel (CNF), which subsequently can generate up to 100 barrels1 of liquid fuels such as Jet Fuel A and Diesel. This new fuel production pathway developed through our Skymining® process is a global breakthrough, which is immediately scalable and profitable even when fossil fuel prices are low.
Increased economic output
Slowing deforestation
Our process is the world’s only holistic solution that deals directly with the three main reasons for deforestation:
By regenerating soils and bringing back marginal and harmed land to food production, we reduce pressure on forests to provide farmland, all while creating alternative fibres and alternative heating and cooking fuels to replace wood.
Organic Food & Plant protein
The immediate priority is to produce healthy and nutritious organic food to support local communities and their economy. The large scale priority is our goal to become a world premier supplier of organically grown plant proteins to support the rising plant-based protein industry, as industrial meat production is the second largest contributor to climate change after burning fossil fuels.
Thriving Communities
Healthy soils are often the difference between conflict and peace, and in creating viable and thriving communities in areas suffering from degraded and marginal land – we will also address migration and import dependency. We envision a world where we all reconnect to nature, by supporting communities that are already connected to the land, and who are our collective guardians of nature.
Organic Fibers
The first priority is to produce new, sustainably grown fibres for the textile industry to replace unsustainable cotton and oil based polyester. The second priority is to use organically grown fibres as feedstock to produce biodegradable plastics to halt the destruction of nature, rivers and oceans through plastic and micro-plastic pollution.
Satellite and drone monitoring
50 tons of carbon negative fuel
According to our ISO 14064 Validation, each hectare of C4 grassland can produce 50 tons1 of solid Carbon Negative Fuel (CNF), which subsequently can generate up to 100 barrels1 of liquid fuels such as Jet Fuel A and Diesel. This new fuel production pathway developed through our Skymining® process is a global breakthrough, which is immediately scalable and profitable even when fossil fuel prices are low.
Increased economic output
We offer companies two ways to decarbonize their business.
We offer Carbon Removal and Permanent Storage at a cost that is significantly lower than the current market prices in this emerging industry, which is currently dominated by Direct Air Capture (DAC). Our technology stores captured carbon in poor or harmed soils for 1,000+ years, thereby increasing the land’s fertility and resilience, and increasing food security for future generations.
We also offer Carbon Removal with direct fossil fuel replacement, a first-mover method which has received an ISO 14064 Validation from DNV. Our contracts include a self-financing method which allows companies to decarbonize at a very large scale without impacting their bottom line or P&L statement.
Our attempt to embody these three values is the defining aspect of our company, our lives and our work.
We believe that, more than a new solution for climate change, we need a solution that everybody is doing. We need to involve all parts of society, and most importantly, the people.
We believe that if companies, the finance sector and the people work together, we can reverse global warming on the scale that is needed.
We will share not only in the responsibility of solving climate change, but also the enormous opportunity that this is.
