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Charm Industrial
Company blog · charmindustrial.com/blogsciencebusiness
Charm Industrial is the company blog at charmindustrial.com, writing about science and business. Since 2018, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “Returning the atmosphere to 280 PPM CO₂”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (22) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Company website for Charm Industrial, which turns crop and biomass waste into bio-oil and injects it into deep wells for carbon removal. Commenters cite it as an example of biomass carbon removal.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 22 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Charm Industrial provides high-quality carbon removal through bio-oil sequestration.
Most-linked posts?
- Returning the atmosphere to 280 PPM CO₂9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2021-04-20
- Should I use ChatGPT if I care about the climate?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-07-17
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-14
- /about2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-03
What Hacker News says?
Charm Industrial [1] was recently mentioned on HN, with a novel approach to BECCS using grass to produce carbon-negative hydrogen. Grasses are the highest-yielding biomass per acre and thus the cheapest CO2 removal option. It also helps if you can make a profitable product from that biomass, like Charm is doing with hydrogen. Not much info online, but we have a weekly climate newsletter [2], or you can ask me (cofou…
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on “Carbon Removal Technologies”Submitted Producing industrial hydrogen from biomass as a story · 247 points
HN discussionhttps://www.charmindustrial.com/contact/
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on “Startups I Want to Fund”Submitted Charm delivers Stripe's carbon removal purchase ahead of schedule as a story · 191 points
HN discussionFor the past 40 years we've viewed climate change as a political problem (see "Losing Earth" from the NY Times for a history of this [1].) Like you, I no longer have any faith that politicians will be able to solve the problem. As the NYT research revealed, politicians generally only take on a cause when there is a viable solution... and frankly there isn't a great solution yet. Solar and wind help a good bit. Nucle…
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on “Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?”Submitted Corn Cobs: Fuel of Nightmares as a story · 161 points
HN discussionIt's a company doing carbon removal, the environmental equivalent of snake oil. They claim to have removed 11,234 tonnes of CO2e, which might sound like a lot, but for context, a single seat on a return flight from New York to London produces 1.7 tonnes. There is only one solution, stop burning fossil fuels. No amount of stuffing agricultural waste down abandoned oil wells will make a dent in the climate crisis. PS:…
Comment linking /blog/accelerating-carbon-removal-with-our-100m-series-b
on “Over-regulation is doubling the cost”Submitted Carbon-Negative Ironmaking Using Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil Gasification as a story · 15 points
HN discussionIt is surprisingly likely to be useless. If you think you've actually offset your flight and take the flight more often, that is bad. And that fact that we don't hold the standards organizations to a higher standard is definitely bad. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/04/carbon-o... discusses problems in the verification system most commonly relied on by airlines. As an example, of 12 projects that cl…
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on “Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing”Submitted Should I use ChatGPT if I care about the climate? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWith plants that remain part of the life cycle? Sure. But growing plants can lock away carbon more permanently depending how it is disposed of. Consider https://charmindustrial.com/ . They take bio waste products (for example corn husks and cobs), turn it into oil, then put that back into wells. So growing plants (in this specific case, food) winds up permanently locking waste away.
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on “Carbon offsetting is just another form of greenwashing”Submitted Largest Permanent Carbon Removal Delivery of All Time as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCharm Industrial is doing something like this (producing hydrogen from biomass and sequestering excess carbon from the process) https://www.charmindustrial.com/about
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on “Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund”Submitted Charm Ledger: A System for Reliably Monitoring and Reporting Carbon Removal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://charmindustrial.com
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on “Estimates of plant CO2 uptake rise by nearly one third”Submitted Carbon Removal: Optimizing biomass processing at Charm as a story · 3 points
HN discussionthey cover this here https://charmindustrial.com/faqs#bury-biomass "Others are working on this method. The landfills are expensive to dig, the geology is critically important, and we don’t believe the capacity to be as scalable or as permanent as injecting carbon-containing liquid into deep geological storage. The conversion of biomass into bio-oil via pyrolysis results in a liquid form with a higher carbon density,…
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on “Charm delivers Stripe's carbon removal purchase ahead of schedule”Submitted Returning the atmosphere to 280 PPM CO₂ as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAs someone working in carbon removal, this milestone is a big deal. Congrats to the Charm team on hitting this milestone! I hosted an interview at AirMiners with Shaun, Charm's Chief Scientist, last June right after they received the purchase order from Stripe here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk0k0ioXqkM The conversation included 3 of the other Stripe finalists (Vesta, Climeworks, and CarbonCure, who just won t…
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on “Charm delivers Stripe's carbon removal purchase ahead of schedule”Submitted Estimating the carbon footprint of ChatGPT inference as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you or your friends are mechanical engineers, we're looking for great meche's with experience in thermal, fluids, combustion, ag processing and more. Would love to chat: https://charmindustrial.com/team or email in my profile.
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on “Corn Cobs: Fuel of Nightmares”Submitted Battling Gremlins on the Way to Gigatons: The Bighorn Journey as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe process separates the biomass carbon into bio-oil, and the NPK in the biomass separates into the biochar/ash (2% of the N, 70% of the P, >90% of the K). That biochar/ash goes back into the soil. So we recover most of the nutrients, plus you get biochar which improves soil carbon, water retention, microbial health, etc. https://charmindustrial.com/faq?question=how-do-you-sustaina...
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on “Corn Cobs: Fuel of Nightmares”Submitted The Shortest Slippiest Path: Optimizing Our Hoses to Accelerate Injections as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOur customers are technology companies based in the Bay Area, check out the home page: https://charmindustrial.com We delivered 90% of permanent carbon removals globally last year: https://twitter.com/charmindustrial/status/14511691760646430...
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on “Corn Cobs: Fuel of Nightmares”Submitted Optimizing Charm's biomass processing with peanut wagons and bounce house fans as a story · 2 points
HN discussionthis[0] is one of the more interesting approaches I've seen. No idea if it's "safe", but seems logical. 0 - https://charmindustrial.com/
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on “Show HN: An API for CO₂ Removal”Submitted Charm LA: repurposing old oil wells for carbon removal in Louisiana as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLots of discussion here, but is anybody here working on a negative emission technology that might help? Would love to hear about it! We’re working on carbon negative industrial hydrogen at Charm Industrial, and we’re hiring: https://www.charmindustrial.com/about
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on “Negative Carbon Emissions”Submitted Can I Use ChatGPT if I care about the climate? as a story · 1 points
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