Eric Mayer earned a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Stanford, where he studied fluid mechanics and hydrology and published research improving global climate simulations. Having stared at a computer screen long enough, Eric went looking for a more immediate way to effect the climate crisis. Upon learning of biochar and the simple technologies already developed for its production, Eric was convinced that biochar held the most promise for scalable carbon capture and storage, and Eric's company Napachar was born. Today, you can find Eric and Napachar in the vineyards and forests of Napa and Sonoma, diverting pulled vines and forestry slash from burn piles to roast in their flame-cap biochar kilns, returning 'waste' carbon to the soil.