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Two new important publications for the enhanced weathering world
Two new important publications for the enhanced weathering world

Two important new publications were published that we want to draw your attention to

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Dirk PaesslerJune 26, 2024
Deep Dive: About the temperature dependence of CO₂ efflux in our EW experiments
Deep Dive: About the temperature dependence of CO₂ efflux in our EW experiments

While reanalyzing our data we found that the differences in CO2 effluxes between treatments/controls are maintained across the whole temperature spectrum. Temperature differences are not the explanation for the differences in effluxes between variations. 

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Dirk PaesslerJune 12, 2024
What happens when a former monitoring-software CEO/CTO measures enhanced weathering experiments
What happens when a former monitoring-software CEO/CTO measures enhanced weathering experiments

A story about the IT technology behind “the most closely monitored and pampered blades of grass I've ever seen” in our greenhouse.

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Dirk PaesslerMay 16, 2024
The “Carbdown Model” of carbon fluxes and pools in the soil (enhanced weathering for CDR)
The “Carbdown Model” of carbon fluxes and pools in the soil (enhanced weathering for CDR)

Introducing our carbon-focused thought-model of the processes that occur in the soil after adding rock amendments for EW.

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Dirk PaesslerApril 22, 2024
Insights from monitoring leachate alkalinity, pCO₂ and CO₂ efflux of 400 weathering experiments over one year
Insights from monitoring leachate alkalinity, pCO₂ and CO₂ efflux of 400 weathering experiments over one year

We present insights we gained from CO₂ efflux, soil pCO₂ and soil water leachate alkalinity data of 400 greenhouse experiments for enhanced weathering (EW).

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Dirk PaesslerApril 11, 2024
Carbdown Fluxmeter Army: Building Robotic Scientific Instruments For CO₂ Efflux Monitoring Of EW Experiments
Carbdown Fluxmeter Army: Building Robotic Scientific Instruments For CO₂ Efflux Monitoring Of EW Experiments

Why and how we built our army of autonomous CO₂ fluxmeters

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Dirk PaesslerFebruary 8, 2024
Project Carbdown Greenhouse: Experiment Extension Week
Project Carbdown Greenhouse: Experiment Extension Week

Last week we have extended our greenhouse experiment with 78 new lysimeter experiments to now close to 400 experiments in total.

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Dirk PaesslerFebruary 3, 2024
24/7 Monitoring of soil gas pCO₂ concentrations in large scale ERW experiments with low cost electronics
24/7 Monitoring of soil gas pCO₂ concentrations in large scale ERW experiments with low cost electronics

We document our latest pCO₂ sensor design and share a preview of our pCO₂ data while comparing these with the CDR estimates we recently derived from alkalinity.

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Dirk PaesslerJanuary 22, 2024
[XMAS Special] Watch Carbdown TV over the holidays!
[XMAS Special] Watch Carbdown TV over the holidays!

Here is a look at Carbdown’s year 2023 with a collection of videos about our work!

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Dirk PaesslerDecember 21, 2023
CDR Estimates Using Leachate Alkalinity - An Update With Improvements And One Correction
CDR Estimates Using Leachate Alkalinity - An Update With Improvements And One Correction

We update our document from 3 weeks ago about estimating carbon dioxide removal (CDR) by enhanced rock weathering (ERW) using measurements of alkalinity in leachate waters.

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Dirk PaesslerDecember 18, 2023
How much faster is rock weathering in our greenhouse compared to the field?
How much faster is rock weathering in our greenhouse compared to the field?

How do we “transfer” weathering rates measured in our greenhouse to the outside world?

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Dirk PaesslerDecember 6, 2023
CDR Measurement for ERW via Alkalinity in Leachate (Data From Our Greenhouse Experiment, Part 2)
CDR Measurement for ERW via Alkalinity in Leachate (Data From Our Greenhouse Experiment, Part 2)

In this blogpost we explain how the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) effects of weathering rock can be estimated using alkalinity measurements and what early results we see in our greenhouse experiment.

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Dirk PaesslerDecember 1, 2023
Data from the Greenhouse Experiment, Part 1: Biomass
Data from the Greenhouse Experiment, Part 1: Biomass

In part one of our greenhouse data series we publish the biomass data from our greenhouse experiment (how much has biomass changed after adding rock dust to different soils?).

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Dirk PaesslerNovember 6, 2023
Carbdown Greenhouse: How We Juggle Over 4 Million Data Points Daily in Real-Time. And Why.
Carbdown Greenhouse: How We Juggle Over 4 Million Data Points Daily in Real-Time. And Why.

Why we use high frequency monitoring on a slow process and how we handle and analyze more than 4 million data points per day in real time

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Dirk PaesslerOctober 24, 2023
Turn it to *11*! The greenhouse tactics that accelerate our ERW research
Turn it to *11*! The greenhouse tactics that accelerate our ERW research

While we are preparing a first look at the weathering data we have also looked at how the ambient climate in the greenhouse has developed since January. Here is an overview of this data.

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Dirk PaesslerOctober 17, 2023
Photo Diary: First 7 Months of Rock Weathering in the Carbdown Greenhouse
Photo Diary: First 7 Months of Rock Weathering in the Carbdown Greenhouse

A photo diary of the things that happened in the greenhouse.

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Dirk PaesslerOctober 11, 2023
Quantification of ERW: Suggesting the concept of “stages” for MRV
Quantification of ERW: Suggesting the concept of “stages” for MRV

Drawing from our experience, we hereby propose the concept of “scopes” to simplify the process. This concept is also used in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol standard to categorize greenhouse gas emissions. We'll apply this same idea to ERW.

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Dirk PaesslerAugust 7, 2023
Video: Project Carbdown: Experiences with several MRV approaches (The theory and practice of measuring ERW)
Video: Project Carbdown: Experiences with several MRV approaches (The theory and practice of measuring ERW)

Our CEO held a conference session about our scientific work with measuring of enhanced rock weathering on croplands.

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Dirk PaesslerJune 11, 2023
Monitoring CO₂ Concentrations in Soil Gas: A Novel MRV Approach for Cropland-Based ERW?
Monitoring CO₂ Concentrations in Soil Gas: A Novel MRV Approach for Cropland-Based ERW?

After more than two years of ERW experiments we still fail to measure carbon dioxide removal with traditional chemical analyses and electronic soil sensors. But when we started to monitor CO₂ concentrations in soil gas we found a signal immediately!

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Dirk PaesslerMay 17, 2023
XXL Lysimeter Experiment: Scientific documentation of the first three months (Master Thesis)
XXL Lysimeter Experiment: Scientific documentation of the first three months (Master Thesis)

The building process of our XXL Lysimeter project in May 2022 and the monitoring of the first 3 months was closely documented in a Master Thesis.

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Dirk PaesslerMay 17, 2023
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