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If anyone from Stripe is reading - is it possible yet for me to simply donate money to the portfolio you’ve assembled without running a business? We purchase mo

If anyone from Stripe is reading - is it possible yet for me to simply donate money to the portfolio you’ve assembled without running a business? We purchase monthly offsets now and I’d love to switch to funding direct carbon capture (and will happily spend more).

nanr 6y ago
Hi, Nan from Stripe! Accepting direct contributions from individuals isn’t a central focus for us right now, but we intend to publish what we learn about carbon removal, which can help inform your own efforts. Some of our partners accept contributions directly: https://www.climeworks.com/subscriptions https://www.climeworks.com/subscriptions, https://projectvesta.org/crowdfunding/ https://projectvesta.org/crowdfunding/
- FooHentai 6y ago
  Climeworks? That's not great news IMO. They recently pivoted to soliciting direct investments from the public, and their previous business model was to pipe CO2 into greenhouses to make lettuce grow faster or to sell it to soda bottling plants. Wish I was joking. But if the tech has promise who cares right? Well... Climeworks first demo site had (as of ~2017) the potential to remove 900 tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere per year. Over one million of these facilities, ignoring the carbon cost to create them, would be needed to remove just 5% of annual CO2 released. It looks like, as of their last press release, they have 14 sites now, with another one planned that will remove 4000 tonnes of carbon per year. Right now on this trajectory, what they are doing is not showing promise of scaling to the extent needed. Vesta on the other hand has more yet to shake out before we can fairly assess their potential. With trial sites now well underway, I eagerly await their findings.
shinryuu 6y ago
Nori.com might interest you they work with carbon removal as well.
deanclatworthy 6y ago
If you want to do this, try compensate.com
- sampo 6y ago
  > compensate.com This Finnish nonprofit has some legal problems in Finland. The authorities interpret that their promise of compensation is too vague to be seen as their customers receiving something for their payments. So the nonprofit would need a permit for asking donations, instead of selling compensation, and they hadn't applied for the permit. https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11138597 https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11138597
kisamoto 6y ago
Take a look at CarbonRemoved.com We have recently added removal via Bio-oil (Charm Industrial) and Olivine. You can choose to remove via monthly subscription or a one-time purchase. Let me know what you think!
Jommi 6y ago
You should check out https://coolerfuture.com/ https://coolerfuture.com/ !
adamsea 6y ago
Honest question - is direct carbon capture better, than offsets or putting that money into helping folks switch to sustainable energy sources?
- FooHentai 6y ago
  The two work together, it's hard to pin one or the other as 'better'. If we dropped to zero emissions overnight, we've likely already put so much carbon into the atmosphere that we need active removal measures to draw it back down quickly and reduce the consequences. On the other hand, if we develop kick-ass capture solutions tomorrow but keep emitting at our current rate (or increased), the two will compete head-to-head and unless the capture method vastly outweighs the emissions, we're still on an increasing or (at best) steady-state situation with carbon in the atmosphere, neither of which give good outcomes. If you made a massive advancement in either field you would perhaps be able to forego the other. But on the more probable path of gradual progress, tackling both is best. I'm talking about all forms of carbon capture here BTW, not just direct. My personal opinion is that valid methods of re-sequestering atmospheric CO2 already exist and could be applied. However since there's money to be made in hawking tech-based solutions these are quietly sidelined in favour of new and sexy and (to the salesmen) profitable.

nanr 6y ago

Hi, Nan from Stripe! Accepting direct contributions from individuals isn’t a central focus for us right now, but we intend to publish what we learn about carbon removal, which can help inform your own efforts. Some of our partners accept contributions directly: https://www.climeworks.com/subscriptions https://www.climeworks.com/subscriptions, https://projectvesta.org/crowdfunding/ https://projectvesta.org/crowdfunding/

FooHentai 6y ago
Climeworks? That's not great news IMO. They recently pivoted to soliciting direct investments from the public, and their previous business model was to pipe CO2 into greenhouses to make lettuce grow faster or to sell it to soda bottling plants. Wish I was joking. But if the tech has promise who cares right? Well... Climeworks first demo site had (as of ~2017) the potential to remove 900 tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere per year. Over one million of these facilities, ignoring the carbon cost to create them, would be needed to remove just 5% of annual CO2 released. It looks like, as of their last press release, they have 14 sites now, with another one planned that will remove 4000 tonnes of carbon per year. Right now on this trajectory, what they are doing is not showing promise of scaling to the extent needed. Vesta on the other hand has more yet to shake out before we can fairly assess their potential. With trial sites now well underway, I eagerly await their findings.

shinryuu 6y ago

Nori.com might interest you they work with carbon removal as well.

deanclatworthy 6y ago

If you want to do this, try compensate.com

sampo 6y ago
> compensate.com This Finnish nonprofit has some legal problems in Finland. The authorities interpret that their promise of compensation is too vague to be seen as their customers receiving something for their payments. So the nonprofit would need a permit for asking donations, instead of selling compensation, and they hadn't applied for the permit. https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11138597 https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11138597

kisamoto 6y ago

Take a look at CarbonRemoved.com We have recently added removal via Bio-oil (Charm Industrial) and Olivine. You can choose to remove via monthly subscription or a one-time purchase. Let me know what you think!

Jommi 6y ago

You should check out https://coolerfuture.com/ https://coolerfuture.com/ !

adamsea 6y ago

Honest question - is direct carbon capture better, than offsets or putting that money into helping folks switch to sustainable energy sources?

FooHentai 6y ago
The two work together, it's hard to pin one or the other as 'better'. If we dropped to zero emissions overnight, we've likely already put so much carbon into the atmosphere that we need active removal measures to draw it back down quickly and reduce the consequences. On the other hand, if we develop kick-ass capture solutions tomorrow but keep emitting at our current rate (or increased), the two will compete head-to-head and unless the capture method vastly outweighs the emissions, we're still on an increasing or (at best) steady-state situation with carbon in the atmosphere, neither of which give good outcomes. If you made a massive advancement in either field you would perhaps be able to forego the other. But on the more probable path of gradual progress, tackling both is best. I'm talking about all forms of carbon capture here BTW, not just direct. My personal opinion is that valid methods of re-sequestering atmospheric CO2 already exist and could be applied. However since there's money to be made in hawking tech-based solutions these are quietly sidelined in favour of new and sexy and (to the salesmen) profitable.