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   by tito 4y ago

   As someone working in the industry, it can definitely feel like that at times. Using your analogy, ultimately a functional public pool depends on both not dumping in sewage, and also having filters for whatever gunk does get in the pool any
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   by tito 4y ago

   This is an interesting point but I can't see any way that we create a sustainable system that works like this. Carbon dioxide is an unaccounted part of the system. Inevitably, whether it's now or in 1,000 years, a functional socie
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   by tito 4y ago

   Re: adapting to other gases, this is something I'm curious about as well. As someone mentioned here, removing one ton of carbon dioxide means cycling through many more times the amount of air. At what point does removing other pollutan
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   by tito 4y ago

   Yes the scales are hard to fathom. And we've been doing that for about 100 years. It's not pretty, but there's a trillion tons of excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. We need to stop emitting as fast as possible and remov
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   by tito 4y ago

   Carbon removal is a brand new industry that lacks decades of industry and academic development, and potentially has few viable business models without a price on carbon. That's equal parts terrifying and exciting. We need a thousand sh
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   by tito 4y ago

   I hear you! What do you propose is the future instead? Curious to hear about what you're working on, we need people working across all areas of planetary solutions.
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   by tito 4y ago

   The book Project Drawdown is a good primer, with pictures! [1] After that, the My Climate Journey [2] and Work on Climate [3] communities are excellent entry points. Climate is a big buffet full of all sorts of cool problems to help solve.
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   by tito 4y ago

   I like the analogy! I think it's clearer than the one about transistors I offered above.
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   by tito 4y ago

   Agreed. In case you or others you connect with are looking to help create more scale for carbon removal solutions, here's an online educational course I helped develop called AirMiners Boot Up -- https://bootup.airminers.org
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    by tito 4y ago

    $650M in funding and they are developing first of its kind technology that will inspire better, more efficient systems and planetary change. I offer that anyone looking at a DAC machine today could see the equivalent of the first transistor
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    by tito 4y ago

    Yes, reverse the sign. Carbon emissions are not tracked in our existing accounting systems. Integrating carbon tracking and emissions into our society is inevitable, but it's only going to get more expensive the longer we wait.
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    by tito 4y ago

    What's the methane destruction project you're working on? Enjoy those 24x carbon credits, that's good stuff. Regarding the main part of your comment, what is it you think people should be working on instead?
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    by tito 4y ago

    (edit: oops was wrong here, updating my comment) This is addressed in the article: "Or would the geothermally-generated electricity go to better use powering electric cars?" There's no such thing as waste heat really. In the
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    by tito 4y ago

    Indeed, we need a thousand shots on goal for carbon removal solutions. Anyone up for the task is welcome to come join our community at AirMiners: http://airminers.org/
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    by tito 4y ago

    "Cost of carbon" -- yes, one scenario is that society dumps a few billion dollars into carbon removal technologies only to learn "oh shit this stuff is realllllllly expensive to pull out later...let's decarbonize overnig
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    by tito 5y ago

    Congrats! Be sure to check out AirMiners Slack where there are dozens of other startups working on building new carbon solutions for a new industry and eventually a new economy. Some of your YC batchmates are members ;) https://a
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    by tito 5y ago

    Hey Kevin - you should come join AirMiners Slack and post this. http://airminers.org 1,000+ entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists who are working on this kind of analysis and creating new solutions. Love the dashboard. So coo
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    by tito 5y ago

    Rufus, terrific work here! Niall - great to see you here. My mind goes towards helping others with "powers of 10 math" about climate. SWITHA for me embodied this concept of "how to think about the climate" more than anyt
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    by tito 5y ago

    BioCurious received some very nice lab equipment for free when Theranos shutdown: https://biocurious.org/
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    by tito 5y ago

    In the works now, will have updates in the next month or two.
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    by tito 5y ago

    Great resource, we pull from it for the AirMiners Boot Up as well. BTW people can access all the Boot Up content on your own on the "Content" menu: https://bootup.airminers.org/meeting-1
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    by tito 5y ago

    Stay tuned, there's a contact form for the fund: https://launchpad.airminers.org/fund
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    by tito 5y ago

    Sure thing! For a bit of customer interview, can you describe your process so far to this point? Where have you been looking, what got you interested, etc. And when you say "exactly what you were looking for", what are you seeing?
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    by tito 5y ago

    For anyone starting a carbon removal startup, check out AirMiners http://airminers.org For anyone who has been scouring the web to learn about carbon removal and wants all the best stuff in one place, check out the 5-week AirMin
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    by tito 5y ago

    An interesting thing here from a biological standpoint is the assumption that a global pandemic is akin to a "100 year flood". Our understanding of climate suggests 100 year floods will be more commonplace -- will 100 year pandemi
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    by tito 5y ago

    If anyone will enable the world to engineer biology, it's Gingko. Their team has built a platform for biological engineering since day 1. This is the summary: * platform for engineering biology (unfair advantage is they've taken t
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    by tito 5y ago

    This implies gasoline costs society $30 per gallon. Here's the math. Each gallon of gasoline in the USA costs roughly $4. Burning the gallon of gasoline creates roughly 10kg of carbon dioxide. 1 ton of emissions therefore equates to ro
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    by tito 5y ago

    Thanks for the kind words and glad to hear it was helpful!
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    by tito 5y ago

    I like those solutions! We aren't doing that because few people are working on solutions. About 1,000 people work in carbon removal worldwide. The solution space is large. Lots to work on.
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    by tito 5y ago

    Agreed! If of interest, I gave a talk on carbon removal and doom/gloom here: https://www.ted.com/talks/tito_jankowski_take_carbon_out_of_...