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Field notes from the measurement side.

What we learn instrumenting sites, arguing with methodologies, and watching a market slowly learn to ask better questions.

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Smallholder farm produce From the field

What 340 smallholder farmers taught us about MRV design

Our first Kelantan deployment assumed reliable mains power and a technician on site. Neither existed. The redesign took four months and made the system better everywhere else too.

Market data visualisation Market

The removal price floor nobody wants to talk about

Durable removal below $90/tonne almost always means someone is absorbing a cost they haven't priced — usually the project developer, sometimes the community hosting the site.

Policy and regulation Policy

Reading the EU CRCF as an infrastructure spec

Most commentary treats the Carbon Removal Certification Framework as a compliance burden. Read it as a technical specification instead and it tells you exactly what to build.

Soil sampling in basalt field Methodology

Enhanced weathering has a sampling problem

Soil cores are the standard for verifying rock weathering. They're also spatially sparse enough that two honest verifiers can produce numbers 20% apart on the same field.

Laboratory analysis Market

What buyers actually ask in due diligence

We logged every question from 45 buyer diligence processes. The pattern is clear, and it is not the one most project developers prepare for.

Forest restoration site From the field

Three years of LiDAR on the same 2,800 hectares

Quarterly drone surveys of a single Sabah restoration site, from bare concession to closing canopy. The growth curve does not look like the model predicted.

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