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How are you removing carbon dioxide?
by Schiendelman 2mo ago
How are you removing carbon dioxide?
- megabless123 2mo agoTito founded AirMiners! https://airminers.com/ https://airminers.com/
- tito 2mo agohey thank you for the shout out!
- Schiendelman 2mo agoThis is so cool! It's a little unclear from the website, is there hardware I could buy today to physically remove carbon dioxide? What can I actually do?
- tito 2mo agoThere's different flavors of carbon dioxide removal hardware, though they're mostly industrial scale. You can pay to suck carbon dioxide from the sky. Here's one example using this vacuum machine by Sirona: https://www.sirona.tech/remove-co2#Individuals https://www.sirona.tech/remove-co2#Individuals (I recommend removing 1 kg just for the experience, it's $1) In terms of buying the hardware yourself, the low end is still tens of thousands of dollars. If you happen to own a farm, a pyrolysis machine can turn your farm waste into solid carbon that's locked up for hundreds of years. And people will pay you to do it too. If you like investing, you can invest in these companies: https://airminers.com/invest https://airminers.com/invest
- Schiendelman 2mo agoThank you! I'll try removing a kilo. :)
- tito 2mo agoHow did it go??
- tito 2mo agoAnd I love your question, I really want individuals to be able to take clear action on this. We've built tools for that, clearly we're not there yet (higher CO2 emissions than ever last year) but not yet "plug this thing in at home". The other thing that comes to mind is we have a online course where thousands of people have got together and learned about how carbon dioxide removal works: https://bootup.airminers.com/ https://bootup.airminers.com/ It's book club style, so you're matched up with a bunch of people and you get to talk through the topics together. Let me know let you think about all this!
- Schiendelman 2mo agoI don't think we'll ever reduce our CO2 emissions - I've done a couple of decades of sustainability organizing (and professionally, I ran Amazon's initial carbon accounting program) and the best I've seen anyone model is "slightly less growth in CO2 emissions." I suspect we're stuck with sucking it out, and resilience efforts. I'll check out the online course, thank you. I saw there are a few startups offering capture at an office building scale, and I'll come back with better questions once I learn more!
- tito 2mo agoOK sounds good!