Welcome to TWW Enterprises: Enhanced carbon sequestration

The Warped Woodturner (TWW) is a local artist traveling his artist's journey in a suburb of Springbrook, WI (pop. 536). TWW's creative calling is to use a wood lathe to make useless objects from locally-sequestered organic carbon for tourists to bring back to the city to give to people they had to buy something for but do not like that much. His target market is the senior citizens since their vision is not as good as it used to be so cannot see the defects as well. His marketing jingle is: “Bowls as simple as their creator”.

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Enhanced carbon sequestration

TWW Enterprises latest attempt to help save the planet is to encase sequestered carbon in its bowls with polyurethane to prevent the carbon leaking into the atmosphere. Here are a couple of bowls coated with organic polyurethane.

The bowl above is 7" by 2 1/2" and made of maple. The wood came from a tree blown down in 2005. Rather than let the carbon escape into the atmosphere, TWW cut up the tree and is making bowls to capture the carbon. The new organic polyurethane technique seals in the carbon better than mineral oil (which is made from petroleum).

The bowl below is made of birch and measures 6" x 2".