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Putting Oil Back Where It Belongs with Peter Reinhardt, CEO & Co-Founder of Charm Industrial

Hardware to Save a Planet

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Charm Industrial's Carbon Rule Pathway to Return the Atmosphere to 280 Parts Per Million Co2

Charm industrial's mission is to return the atmosphere to 280 parts per million co2. We're currently at like 420 or so, and the way we're doing that is by putting oil back underground. So we take waste biomass residue stuff like corn straw or sugar cambigas or wheat straw or forest operation tree thinning all over the world. And we cook it down into this liquid called bio oil and then we inject that bio oil deep underground. It actually solidifies as a lot of phenol content and the phenols polymerize into the sort of afnolic resin and become super hard rather than co2 gas which would try to escape.

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