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I'm curious what people here think about their own role in a prize like this. Are you interested in joining a team? Starting a company? Working on gigaton scale
by tito 5y ago
I'm curious what people here think about their own role in a prize like this. Are you interested in joining a team? Starting a company? Working on gigaton scale carbon removal?
I've been working on carbon removal for the past few years, eager to help anyone who is considering actually making a leap into this industry for their own curiosity or even career.
That said there are plenty of other massive juicy challenges facing the climate. Whatever you choose, good luck!
- lucb1e 5y ago> I've been working on carbon removal for the past few years How? And can I join?
- tito 5y agoThere's a 101 Guide listed on AirMiners (http://airminers.org http://airminers.org). You can also browse the startup index there to get inspired. One you go through that, there's a 5 week group discussion on carbon removal basics, check out AirMiners Boot Up: https://bootup.airminers.org/ https://bootup.airminers.org/
- paulcarroty 5y ago> I've been working on carbon removal for the past few years Great, guess you should tell more about your experience.
- tito 5y agoI've got a talk up here about my experience: https://www.ted.com/talks/tito_jankowski_take_carbon_out_of_the_air_and_make_useful_things_with_it/up-next https://www.ted.com/talks/tito_jankowski_take_carbon_out_of_...
- kisamoto 5y agoI choose to help people support a portfolio of carbon removal at https://carbonremoved.com https://carbonremoved.com If you're working on carbon removal or want to support carbon removal please feel free to email me directly: ewan (at) above website
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- tito 5y agoNice work! Are you already on AirMiners? If not, you would fit right in. You're on it with all the replies the thread today...I'm replying opportunistically while sitting by a pool :D
- thamer 5y agoGreat initiative! I offset my emissions with Wren (https://wren.co https://wren.co – I am not affiliated) and wonder how it compares to Carbon Removed. My current plan there is ~$23 to offset 200% of my emissions for a total of 1.3 tons of CO2/month (if that seems low: I have no car, no commute, live in a 1-bedroom apartment and rarely eat meat). The plans for Carbon Removed are at $15 for 100 kg, $42 for 300 kg, and $65 for 500 kg. Why such a difference? That's $0.13-0.15/kg for Carbon Removed and $0.018/kg at Wren. Where is the difference coming from?
- kisamoto 5y agoThanks for your feedback and great news that you are already taking responsibility for your footprint. A key difference between us and Wren (and other offset based services) is that we focus on carbon removal - actively undoing a carbon footprint, rather than offsetting it. The way we see it this way: if we emit a ton of CO₂, we should remove a ton resulting in 0 emissions in the atmosphere. If we offset (by paying typically developing countries to change their behaviour), there is still a ton in the atmosphere. As a result, sequestering carbon dioxide is much harder and expensive. For example, removing via Direct Air Capture is currently around $1000/ton. Via bio-oil is close to $700/ton. At the other end of the scale offsets are typically $32/ton. I don't want to diminish the efforts of offsets - they have a place and help developing nations transition to more sustainable alternatives - but we want to focus on bringing carbon removal down the curve. To try and make this more affordable we also mix in calculated removals via forestation which is cheaper. Does that make things a little clearer?
- alexose 5y agoI would work on this problem for free. Climate change is an existential threat to my life in Southwest Oregon.
- tito 5y agoHeck yeah! Check out my other comment about Boot Up - may be a helpful start