# Tencent — A Mechanical Forest That Locks Away Carbon

- Company: Tencent (tencent.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-01T08:33:08+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.tencent.com/a-mechanical-forest-that-locks-away-carbon/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/8079-a-mechanical-forest-that-locks-away-carbon
- Subject: Hunyuan

A team from Nanjing University has developed the BioChargeDAC system, a 'mechanical forest' that captures CO₂ using charged biochar and clean energy. With support from Tencent's CarbonX program, the system is being prepared for deployment in Kenya, aiming for scalable and permanent carbon removal.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.tencent.com/a-mechanical-forest-that-locks-away-carbon/:

> Inspired by how trees absorb carbon, a team from Nanjing University has built a 'mechanical forest' powered by clean energy and designed to be cheap enough to scale.

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