CalBio Smashes Carbon Intensity Records

How low can it go? Well, California Bioenergy’s new dairy biogas to hydrogen project is breaking carbon intensity records in all the best ways. CalBio is working with Bar20 Dairy Farm in Kerman, California to convert dairy manure to low carbon hydrogen for transportation fueling. The California Air Resources Board has released a draft analysis of the hydrogen’s lifecycle carbon intensity and found that it will have a record low carbon intensity of -1,887 grams of CO2 equivalent emissions per megajoule of energy. This will be the lowest carbon fuel on the market, by far!

CalBio has achieved this remarkable carbon intensity by converting dairy manure to biogas and then converting that biogas to electricity using a fuel cell. The electricity will then be used to created renewable electrolytic hydrogen from water.

See the Air Board’s detailed calculation of the project’s carbon intensity here.