We have identified the vast potential for the use of bamboo in a number of processing and manufacturing applications and in particular its sustainability and potential for restoring the health of the planet. As the project has developed, it has become apparent that the marriage of bamboo biomass with the latest developments in torrefaction technologies for the creation of a clean burning equivalent to ordinary coal, as well as other biomass-to-energy conversion technologies, can provide the greatest sustainable economic opportunity.

We are convinced that the transition from a high-carbon to a low -carbon economy will be the most significant process in modern economic history - matching the Industrial Revolution in scale and the Technological Revolution in pace. Climate change dictates the need to improve the environmental footprint of fossil-fuelled industries and of coal-fired power plants.

The result is a huge demand for raw biomass material as a sustainable energy resource for both developing and developed economies in a “carbon light” manner – sustainability and renewability of the resource are key factors – so is abundance. Bamboo is the fastest growing, sustainable biomass available.

After torrefaction, bamboo pellets have an energy content on a par with the best quality coals, exceeding by an order of magnitude other biomass crops, while at the same time being totally carbon neutral and non-competitive with crops (such as corn) used for food production.

In essence, the large scale growing of bamboo for the production of such biomass-to-energy products as clean-coal pellets, bio-ethanol, bio-diesel, bio-oil solve several key issues in one very simple and elegant way – reducing carbon emissions, providing a clean energy source alternative to fossil fuels, and not competing with food production.