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Notes from Elon Musk and Diamandis Carbon Removal xPrize Launch Interview(futuri.st)
1 points by matznerd 5y ago|2 comments
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by matznerd 6y ago
You are on the target. Fish contain high levels of the fatty acid DHA. DHA is the main limiting factor on the growth of the brain, and needed exogenously (AA needed too, but can be converted internally). Humans cannot easily get access to D
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Businesses Aim to Pull Greenhouse Gases from the Air. It’s a Gamble(nytimes.com)
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by matznerd 6y ago
Is there some reason I am missing that this is on the front page?
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by matznerd 6y ago
The screen was meh, but I thought the real innovation was that it was controlled by a ring worn on the pointer finger that was manipulated with the thumb. Aesthetically, it looked fairly normal, but it had a joystick on it to control the sc
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by matznerd 6y ago
I used it for presentations and liked it conceptually because you would be able to advance the slides with the flick of a wrist and without having to hold a clicker. The problem was that it would always unlock from hand gestures and the sof
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Ever been to a green sand beach? The newest geohack to fight climate change(fastcompany.com)
1 points by matznerd 6y ago|1 comments
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Stripe picks $1M in carbon-removal projects to spur industry(reuters.com)
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by matznerd 7y ago
Hi Jeff, Project Vesta is making great progress building out our scientific team and deployment plan! We have an update coming out very soon, our last poster in December was featured in the SF Chronicle under the titled "Could putting
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by matznerd 7y ago
Someone should make an app for this and it could be done way better. Here are is how I would do it so its better and fits in the use case. 1. More realistic and even custom sounding text-to-voice API such as amazon polly or - https:/
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by matznerd 7y ago
I'm not sure he completely undermines himself. Yes, we are definitely growing more birds for food and he could have made that relationship more clear, but at the same time, there is simultaneously a bird "extinction" event go
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by matznerd 7y ago
I am personally more of an optimist, but I originally saw this post on r/collapse and then on r/bestof and now its made it to my FB feed via this Medium post. I care more about people understanding what a dire situation we are in
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The Future Is Grim(medium.com)
81 points by matznerd 7y ago|87 comments
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Amyloid plaques may not cause Alzheimer's disease, study says(upi.com)
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by matznerd 7y ago
That would be great, I'll be in touch.
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by matznerd 7y ago
Major respect to Stripe for starting this program, as this helps solve a real problem in the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) field. At Project Vesta (thanks for the shoutout[1]), while we have a plan for individuals to pay for their CO2 remova
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by matznerd 7y ago
Hi HN, I am Eric Matzner, the Co-Founder of Project Vesta and I have been responding to all of the questions on this thread and will continue to answer them, but I just wanted to say thank you for all of the interest. When YC posted their C
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by matznerd 7y ago
How do we deal with 10-12 feet of global sea level rise nearly instantaneously? There is a single glacier called in an Antarctica called Thwaites which is also known as the "cork" on an Antarctic sea that, if it melts or comes un
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by matznerd 7y ago
When 1 tonne of olivine weathers, the chemical reaction removes 1.25 tonnes of free CO2 from the environment in terms of stoichiometry. However, in the process of mining, milling, and transporting that olivine to that beach, we emit approxi
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by matznerd 7y ago
Thank you for the feedback, you are right on the mark, as this is our plan once we have our first Impact Beach in operation. The plan is to sell a piece of jewelry for $XX-$XXX and then charge $25 per month, which is about the cost of 1 ton
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by matznerd 7y ago
We are not pitching this as "THE" solution, but as "a" solution that can scale up to and beyond the global level of yearly CO2 emissions. Even after the "low-hanging opportunities" it makes a good amount of sen
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by matznerd 7y ago
In terms of fossil fuel volume in oil equivalents, we are at a yearly level greater than 10 km^3... In terms of construction materials, these 2009 calculations give 2005 numbers of over 60 Gt... Growth in global materials use, GDP and popul
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by matznerd 7y ago
Yes, I was just quickly paraphrasing the major takeaways on the impact of sand and its importance in our lives from the excellent book I referenced, The World in a Grain. Here is an excerpt for you and any others interested: "He rummag
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by matznerd 7y ago
This process is typically referred to in the scientific literature as "enhanced" weathering but we think that "accelerated" weathering is easier for lay people to understand. Drawdown is mostly focused on things we can c
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by matznerd 7y ago
Our goal is not to cover up existing tourist beaches. You would be surprised how much coastline around the world is undeveloped and not even accessible by roads etc, those beaches are likely to be the places where we go first. That said, we
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by matznerd 7y ago
Hi, yes the beaches would still be good for recreation and there should not be a noticeable muddying of the water. The existing beaches of olivine (such as Papakolea Beach in Hawaii that is pictured on our website) are safe and have no obse
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by matznerd 7y ago
That is not meant to be "hand wavy," as there is no "hand-wavy" way to gloss over the fact that humans are putting out massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. It is now on the order of over 45,00
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by matznerd 7y ago
Yes, we plan to not only run tests on every source before placing the olivine on beaches, but to carry out on-going monitoring with sensors. We are looking for experts in this area (and many others) to help design processes to make sure the
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by matznerd 7y ago
Hi, if you'd like to donate at this point please check out https://projectvesta.org/donate where we currently have our "Grain of Hope" necklace available. It is a single grain of olivine, suspended in a sand
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by matznerd 7y ago
We will be testing the sources of olivine for nickel, and as posted upstream, we have potential solutions for phytomining the olivine reserves for nickel with nickel hyper-accumulating plants, and then burning plants, retrieving the nickel

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