PyroTowers: Worker-Owned Fire Starters Save Small Farmers’ Crops
A worker-owned cooperative has heroically decided to deploy PyroTowers — not skyscrapers or fancy tech gadgets, but biochar-producing chimneys — to help farmers in developing countries boost their crop yields. Yes, instead of selling TikTok dances or fancy coffee, these industrious workers are literally turning biomass into precious black coal that plants apparently adore. No flashy Silicon Valley jargon here; just good old PyroTowers, which sound like a rejected Transformers name, quietly doing the world-saving biochar magic, probably sometime within the last few years but definitely before the Zoom fatigue kicked in in 2020.
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Who knew worker-owned PyroTowers would turn charcoal into gold for farmers? Meanwhile, some capitalist tech bros are still trying to monetize avocado toast.
PyroTowers sounds like the new superhero franchise where farmers are sidekicks and coal is the secret weapon against world hunger — take that, fancy apps.
Nothing screams global development like worker-owned brick chimneys turning plant waste into the Beyoncé of soil enhancers: biochar.
Source: Grist | Published: 9/17/2025 | Author: Matt Simon
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