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Oh, without a doubt. This is one reason the model includes charging tipping fees for Asplundh and other companies like that to dump pre-chipped wood at the site.

Every problem has a solution.

The Ben Gunn 2y ago

the chipper is a business on its own - but you might have more around you than i did when i looked into it. Smaller diameter timber means a cheaper smaller chipper, that might work.

Re carbon credits - yes thats a huge deal but then youre into registrations etc.

They credit the biochar hugely because of how much co2 it can capture. Its amazing stuff and it sells great - cows even eat it.

Huge capital investment done properly though. Keep me posted i'd be amazed and impressed to see the entire loop running profitably.

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Nunya Bidness 2y ago

I can identify more than several businesses in this model.

I think about Joel Salatin and how he looks at different enterprises on his farms as "fiefdoms".

There is no way one person could build and operate what I'm thinking about. Instead, it would have to be a collection of people and smaller companies managing different aspects of this thing.

For instance, there would need to be at least two entities working together to make the Biochar/Mining fiefdom work. At least in the beginning. Animal management alone would be at least 3 different endevours: Cattle, fowl, and fish. I doubt a cattleman would have time to manage fish and chickens. Greenhouse management is also a whole business.

The real question is how to manage this whole thing holistically (a la Alan Savory) and how to make the management of each entity inside profitable on it's own.

Like I said, it may be impossible but I'm captured by this thing. It won't let me go.