Climate change has become one of the major challenges for mankind and the natural environment. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released into the atmosphere in ever rapidly growing volumes are recognised to be responsible for this change. Carbon dioxide is one of the major green house gas which can be effectively brought down fast by trees that grows fast by absorbing co2. Beema Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants on earth, grows one and half feet a day in India. Beema Bamboo acts as a carbon sink for CO2 emission of Chennai.
When fossil fuels are burnt, carbon is removed from below ground (gas and oil wells and coal mines) and release into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide (CO2). This is a greenhouse gas that increases the risk of global warming. In contrast, Bamboo (like all other plants) removes CO2 from the atmosphere and incorporates it into plant tissue, both above and below the ground.
“Bio Carbon Capture” by bamboo is an approach to neutralize the fossil fuel emissions, based on capturing Carbon di-oxide from the atmospheric air by the process of photosynthesis by fast growing clones of bamboo-Beema, specially developed for high biomass production as bio-carbon sink. The carbon di-oxide can then be prominently stored in the woods of bamboo or can be used for generating Carbon Neutral Energy. Though the carbon di-oxide capture is done by all plants and trees, the special Beema bamboo developed absorbs 80 tons of carbon di-oxide per acre every year for next hundreds of years. This special bamboo clone developed by conventional breeding method and not involving GMO technique by Dr N. Barathi, Growmoe Biotech Ltd. Hosur, India.
Bio carbon capture takes place when the bamboo is grown either as individual tree or as Energy plantation in large scale. Bio carbon capture
