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Oh man I would love to be involved in this. Have you had people apply to YC already with ideas in these areas? I'm not familiar with any in the YC portfolio, so
by durkie 9y ago
Oh man I would love to be involved in this. Have you had people apply to YC already with ideas in these areas? I'm not familiar with any in the YC portfolio, so they must not have made it. Can you speak to any technical shortcomings of ideas you've already seen (aside from the general cost/scale issues mentioned on the site)?
I'm surprised that people keep trying to direct-air-capture. I was under the impression that the carbon content (as carbonates) in seawater was much higher than in the atmosphere.
I believe the navy has had some initial success in transforming marine carbonates in to petroleum products, which they will probably use as fuel, but I can't wait for the day when we have reverse oil wells pumping carbon back in to the ground..
- gustaf 9y ago>Have you had people apply to YC already with ideas in these areas? Yes but we would love to see a lot more. We know there are lots of researchers working on this but not enough of them are starting companies. >Can you speak to any technical shortcomings of ideas you've already seen (aside from the general cost/scale issues mentioned on the site)? Here is a great overview of current technologies: http://www.centerforcarbonremoval.org/what-is-carbon-removal/ http://www.centerforcarbonremoval.org/what-is-carbon-removal...
- titojankowski 9y agoThis may be useful to figuring out how to get involved -- here's an index we made of all the existing carbon removal startups and companies: http://airminers.org http://airminers.org