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EU funding (€3,474,059): Super Bio-Accelerated Mineral weathering: a new climate risk hedging reactor technology Hor17 Dec 2020 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
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Super Bio-Accelerated Mineral weathering: a new climate risk hedging reactor technology
Conventional climate change mitigation alone will not be able to stabilise atmospheric CO2 concentrations at a level compatible with the 2°C warming limit of the Paris Agreement. Safe and scalable negative emission technologies (NETs), which actively remove CO2 from the atmosphere and ensure long-term carbon (C) sequestration, will be needed. Fast progress in NET-development is needed, if NETs are to serve as a risk-hedging mechanism for unexpected geopolitical events and for the transgression of tipping points in the Earth system. Still, no NETs are even on the verge of achieving a substantial contribution to the climate crisis in a sustainable, energy-efficient and cost-effective manner. BAM! develops ‘super bio-accelerated mineral weathering’ (BAM) as a radical, innovative solution to the NET challenge. While enhanced silicate weathering (ESW) was put forward as a potential NET earlier, we argue that current research focus on either 1/ ex natura carbonation or 2/ slow in natura ecosystem-based ESW, hampers the potential of the technology to provide a substantial contribution to negative emissions within the next two decades. BAM! focuses on an unparalleled reactor effort to maximize biotic weathering stimulation at low resource inputs, and implementation of an automated, rapid- learning process that allows to fast-adopt and improve on critical weathering rate breakthroughs. The direct transformational impact of BAM! lies in its ambition to develop a NET that serves as a climate risk hedging tool on the short term (within 10-20 years). BAM! builds on the natural powers that have triggered dramatic changes in the Earth’s weathering environment, embedding them into a novel, reactor-based technology. The ambitious end-result is the development of an indispensable environmental remediation solution, that transforms large industrial CO2 emitters into no-net CO2 emitters.
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum | €442,809 |
| Universiteit Antwerpen | €1,421,875 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG | €640,625 |
| Uppsala Universitet | €468,750 |
| WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY | €500,000 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/964545
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