Crotty et al. (2026): Nonenergy Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage (BiCRS): Assessing Durability of Nongaseous Carbon Products Across Terrestrial Storage Fates
Sinéad M. Crotty, Peter W. Reiners, Leah K. Clayton, Edward Young, Andrew Jones, Melissa A. Cregger, Anne K. Starace and Anne E. Harman-Ware, IN: Chemical Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.5c00618
Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage, or BiCRS, pathways use plants or algae that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis and store it underground or in long-lived products. While some BiCRS approaches generate an energy product, all BiCRS approaches generate a carbon product. A new subset of BiCRS approaches focus on the storage of these raw or converted carbon products for generation of carbon credits. However, the durability of these approaches is highly variable as carbon products vary widely in their “form” and the conditions of their “fate.” The authors organize their thinking about carbon products and their durability around these two primary axes.