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by tito 3y ago
Climate models say we need to be removing about 10 billion tons per year of carbon dioxide from the air by 2050, in addition to massive decarbonization. So we need trees, this stuff, and a lot more. A new $1T industry in the next 27 years.
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by tito 3y ago
Both are required! (did I make it seem like it was either/or, lemme know)
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by tito 3y ago
Ah you're totally right, my bad. Better to say "The goal of these systems isn't to neutralize the planet's emissions all by themselves "
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by tito 3y ago
The goal of these systems isn't to neutralize the planet's emissions (edit: by themselves). We need to both massively decarbonize and remove carbon from the air. The goal of these removal systems is to clean up the last bit. That&
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by tito 3y ago
This system proposes removing 30 millions tons per year. A tree captures about 20 tons of carbon dioxide per year. So this is the equivalent to 1.5 million trees. Trees grow at about 800 trees per acre. This effectively matches the space of
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by tito 3y ago
Yes, burning fossil fuels is really inefficient. We should stop doing that. We have better options now. And, climate models say we need to remove 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the air every year in 2050. It's really inefficien
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by tito 3y ago
Yes it's only scratching the surface. Carbon removal needs to effectively become a $1T/year industry in the next 27 years to meet climate models. That's a top 20 industry by today's standards.
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by tito 3y ago
Yes, those types of things are part of the solution. Climate models say we need to be removing about 10 billion tons per year of carbon dioxide from the air by 2050, in addition to massive decarbonization. So we need trees, this stuff, and
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by tito 3y ago
Yes the scale today is small. But climate models say we need to be removing about 10 billion tons per year of carbon dioxide from the air by 2050, in addition to massive decarbonization. Net negative. Therefore, it's not an "if&qu
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by tito 3y ago
We're on a quest to remove a billion tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide by 2030. Join us! https://airminers.org/
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by tito 3y ago
I write about carbon removal every week, 205 posts over 4 years. https://tito.co/ Here's some favs: - https://tito.co/posts/how-to-get-to-work-on-carbon-removal.h... How to get to work on carbon r
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by tito 4y ago
Haha love it. Reminds me of something out of Game of Thrones. For anyone reading this poem who has a strong negative reaction: Consider it a sign that perhaps there's something more you could be doing in your own life. Take a job in cl
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by tito 4y ago
Thanks! I wonder if there's a digital game or model version of this. Feedback loops can be pretty entertaining if presented well.
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by tito 4y ago
Discontinuous effects, yes. A stable climate functions more like a light switch than a dimmer switch. There is an "off", and once we go there getting back is really hard. It's almost like a one way switch. As one example of a
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by tito 4y ago
Yeah the headlines end up all sounding similar after awhile. Another challenge is the report itself is pretty dry and emotionless (for example, every line of the PDF is numbered). Here's a link to the new Synthesis report referenced in
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by tito 4y ago
not fully fdic insured
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by tito 4y ago
thanks fam. figuring that out now.
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welp, that didn't work out
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by tito 4y ago
SVB is our bank, I got in touch with a member of the senior team there and got the following message to share. (My own interpretation is I'm comfortable and I'm not planning to pursue it further at the moment): As you know, we are
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by tito 4y ago
For you and others reading this, here's some ways to put your skills to work on solutions: https://workonclimate.org/ https://www.mcjcollective.com/ https://bootup.airminers.org/
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by tito 4y ago
This is a great piece on finding a job with purpose: https://medium.com/@hhlim/chasing-a-job-with-purpose-85357ee... "2 years ago, I made the career pivot I’d thought about for years, from my Silicon Valley enterp
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by tito 4y ago
I hear what you're saying. The example of the albedo effect of solar panels makes the most sense, the trade off of absorbing heat vs catching photons. I didn't follow the heat pollution example, perhaps because the heat and greenh
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by tito 4y ago
memes will save the climate!
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by tito 4y ago
Ya this is an aspect I'm curious about as well. Is this all scaling up/copy pasting or are there other improvements?
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by tito 4y ago
Well better than nothing! If you have plans to return to Iceland, maybe I can point you to someone helpful on their team. my email is my username @ airminers.org. And if you do get curious about working on carbon removal, check out the AirM
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by tito 4y ago
Reducing emissions from the start, manufacturing, all sound like important parts of the solution! If you're looking for resources to get started, I linked Project Drawdown and others in another comment in this thread.
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by tito 4y ago
I work in the carbon removal industry, and your calculations add up. Where I encourage you to explore is what an equivalent unit of energy spent on developing new carbon removal systems is right now vs the equivalent unit of energy spent to
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by tito 4y ago
The challenge is we already have a trillion tons of excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. So even if you halted all emissions right now , you would still have excess carbon dioxide sitting in the atmosphere heating up the planet for the
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by tito 4y ago
Well said. Saw in your bio that you're working on capturing carbon dioxide, can you share more?

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