Please find below the
Finalist Evaluation
Judges'' comments
SUBJECT: Climate CoLab Judging Results
Proposal: Carbon sequestration from organic wastes
Thank you for participating in the 2015 Climate CoLab Waste Management contest, and for the time you spent in creating and revising your entry.
The Judges have strongly considered your proposal in this second round of evaluation, and have chosen to not advance it as a Finalist for this contest.
We, the Judges and contest Fellows, are truly grateful for your contribution to the Climate CoLab and for your commitment to address climate change.
We encourage you to keep developing your work. Transfer it to the Proposal Workspace to re-open it, make edits, add collaborators, and even submit it into a future contest. You can do so by logging into your account, opening your proposal, selecting the Admin tab, and clicking “Move proposal”.
We hope you will stay involved in the Climate CoLab community. Please support and comment on proposals that have been named Finalists and vote for which proposal you would like to be nominated as the contest’s Popular Choice Winner.
If you have questions, please contact the Climate CoLab staff at admin@climatecolab.org
Keep up the great work. And thank you again for being a part of this mission to harness the world’s collective efforts to develop and share innovative climate change solutions.
2015 Climate CoLab Judges
Additional comments from the Judges:
Judge 1: Limited information makes supporting this proposal difficult. Pyrolosis will have it's day, I just don't think it's here yet.
Judge 2: Unfortunately, the judges' questions were never addressed.
Semi-Finalist Evaluation
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Judges'' comments
Congratulations! Your proposal, Carbon sequestration from organic wastes in the Waste Management contest has been selected to advance to the Semi-Finalists round. You will be able to revise your proposal and add new collaborators if you wish, from July 1st, 2015 until July 14, 2015, midnight Eastern Time.
At the revision deadline listed above, your proposal will be locked and considered in final form. The Judges will undergo another round of evaluation to ensure that Semi-Finalist proposals have addressed the feedback given, and select which proposals will continue to the Finalists round. Finalists are eligible for the contest’s Judges Choice award, as well as for public voting to select the contest’s Popular Choice award.
The Judges' comments are posted below.
Please incorporate answers to these comments in your revisions, or your proposal may not be advanced to the Finalists round.
Judge 1: This proposal is interesting but seems unfinished (see comments to date). Without documentation / citation backing up claims of sustainability along with any methodology leading to or informing the choice of intervention stated here it is difficult to support this project. Also missing are any mention of key partners, stakeholders, or funding sources that could be leveraged to make this project a reality. The stated impact of this project is never clearly hashed out either. The proposal needs to clearly state inputs and outputs rather than eluding to possible benefits.
Judge 2: This approach is viable and is being addressed in other parts of the world. The proposal needs to address drying of high-moisture organic source materials, and the approach to pyrolyzing. How will partial combustion products (syngas) be addressed? Nitrates of pyrolyzed source materials will be lost under this plan. Biochar does not comprise fertilizer by itself, but does provide fertilizer substrate for compost etc.
Thank you for your great work and again, congratulations!
2015 Climate CoLab Judges
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