What a MILKING ROBOT is for dairy farmers in the high-income countries (HICs), is the BIOFURCATOR for African woman smallholders who capture & use atmospheric CO2 through ECOHUBS near them
One BIOFURCATOR has the capacity to better the lifes and futures of 200 African women smallholders and their children.
Under intense heat and atmospheric pressure (not dangerous at all) BIOFURCATORs crack, split and separate agro-wastes from sorghum and other C4 crops into:
biochar for use in carbon dioxide removal (CDR)
biochar for use as a CO2 sink
biochar as a soil fertility regeneratot
biochar for keeping agricultural soils moist
pyroligneous acid (wood vinegar) for use as a fungicide, fertilizer, soil enhancer, animal feed supplement, wood preservation agent and source of smoke flavoring for food.
dry bio-oil (concentrated pyrolysis oil) for use as boiler fuel, fuel for brick making, fuel for cookstoves, wood impregnation agent, asphalt modificator-rejuvenator
wet bio-oil (watery pyrolysis oil) or use as a bio-based wood modification treatment (creosoot) asphalt modifier, rejuvenator
wood0syngas for steam generation, drying, parboiling, electricity production
Agro-Wastes (such as sorghum) fueled BIOFURCATORs are central to ECOHUB ecosocial carbon dioxide removal facilities. They are situated in areas where the soils are generally degraded and smallholder farmers are not doing too well.