ELDR SIX is a biochar materials company.
Working at the intersection of science and design we create innovative carbon negative solutions for our built environment.
Our Work
We take low value organic waste and convert it into a stable carbon building block, to create the next generation of building materials.
Different feedstocks can have very different properties when they are converted to biochar and we aim to develop new and innovative carbon negative composites by mixing them with a variety of organic binders.
What is Biochar?
Biochar is black carbon produced from biomass through pyrolysis or thermal conversion. It can be made from almost any organic biomass, from wood to rice hulls to corn stover to manure. Upon thermal conversion the biomass carbon is transformed into a more stable form and therefor sequestered from the atmosphere. Biochar does not refer to a singular product with a given set of chemical and physical characteristics. Rather, biochar spans the spectrum of black carbon forms and it is chemically and physically unique as a function of the feedstock, creation process (pyrolysis unit), cooling, and storage conditions. Biochar has been created and used by humans as a soil additive for more than two millennia, but only in the past decade have we really started to explore the other possibilities of this incredible material.
Disrupting the Carbon Cycle.
When a tree falls in the woods, 99% of the encapsulated carbon returns to the atmosphere as C02. Just by making Biochar out of the approximately 1 billion tons of waste biomass produced annually in the world, we can create carbon syncs that would reduce the extra CO2 in the atmosphere by 1/3 by the end of the century. But we can do so much more with this amazing material before we put it back into the ground.
