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by tito 5y ago
Indeed, massive carbon emissions reductions are necessary, carbon removal is not a replacement. Marcius Extavour from XPRIZE gave a great keynote at AirMiners talking about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTTqeEEhym4
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Appreciate the perspective!
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You can click on the "Products" tab of the AirMiners Index ( https://airminers.org/explore ) for startups making useful products out of carbon dioixde
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Agreed, those 2 are common concerns carbon removal needs to address better. Working in the industry there are other concerns that seem more pressing (i.e. can we even make it work? can we grow it 2x per year for the next decade needed?). As
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Context: I work on carbon removal Interesting seeing this thread at midnight PST on HN -- assuming this is the Europe crowd, hello! Curious for people's thoughts about perception of these technologies around the world. Have you heard a
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Yes the scale is fascinating! 2018 per capita emissions in the USA are 15 tons of carbon dioxide per person. So 1 million tons is the yearly emissions for 66,666 people. Still early days. We need to get 2x better at carbon removal every 12
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by tito 5y ago
Those interested in learning about carbon removal technology are encouraged to check out the AirMiners Boot Up, a 5-week program to learn about the world of carbon removal: http://bootup.airminers.org You can also study the mate
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This generation's equivalent is Google Tilt Brush in VR. Now open source [1] - maybe they'll add some music finally [1] https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/01/the-future-of-tilt...
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by tito 5y ago
Anyone who loves this kind of stuff should check out The Orbital Index, a curated weekly newsletter of all things space: https://orbitalindex.com Run by two friends of mine who are avid HNers.
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The changing climate will shift assets to liabilities (e.g. the Amazon) and liabilities to assets (e.g. mining landfills). Hard to tell which is which at times.
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Always good to have awareness. To me there's likely a lot you could contribute anyway. Maybe even just emailing companies and telling them you like what they're doing. There are fewer than 2,000 people working on carbon removal wo
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by tito 5y ago
Agree with this. It's a hard problem. Have an idea for something better? Heck yeah, let's figure out how to get you working on it! If folks want help getting started, there's no place better than AirMiners: http://
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by tito 5y ago
That's helpful perspective, thanks! AirMiners has a #jobs channel on Slack that's one of the most popular. However because it's on Slack means it's limited to people who are part of the AirMiners community. Which would m
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Sounds great, anything I can do to help you get to work on soil? Consider checking out AirMiners, may have some resources to help you in your quests.
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Heck yeah! Check out my other comment about Boot Up - may be a helpful start
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All good, cya soon!
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I've got a talk up here about my experience: https://www.ted.com/talks/tito_jankowski_take_carbon_out_of_...
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Nice 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
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There's a 101 Guide listed on AirMiners ( 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 ou
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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 carbon removal? I've been working on carbon removal for the past few
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We need 1000 shots on goal to get to gigaton scale carbon removal. Project Vesta builds on decades of academic research in olivine weathering that was itching for field trials and scale up. 999 more shots like this and we'll get there.
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by tito 5y ago
Indeed, getting emissions under control is key. And so are developing solutions to removing carbon from the ambient air, with fewer than 2,000 people working in the industry worldwide. Regarding your point about carbon capture, XPRIZE recen
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For startups going after Elon's prize, AirMiners partnered with XPRIZE and CDL to create the AirMiners Launchpad. Founders should check out https://launchpad.airminers.org/ Applications for Batch #2 close August 31st A
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Hackers can join (or start) an air mining company working on how to pull carbon from the air economically: https://airminers.org/
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If you're interested in how to remove and mine carbon from the air, come check out AirMiners: http://airminers.org We're hosting the AirMiners Launchpad to help early startup teams and solo-founders get off the ground:
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As a middle ground between DIY and leaving it unknown you could also hire a contract lab to do this with you. As an experiment in this, I found a contract lab, ordered PCR primers, and sent in McDonalds burgers and McFish samples to do spec
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100%. A common misconception with carbon removal is that it's somehow an alternative for reducing emissions. It's not. The planet needs to go carbon neutral full stop. We need tons of work to be done there. And....even when we do,
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Oooo that's good info, thanks! I seem to recall reading it somewhere, perhaps as context after the publication of AppleDesign: https://www.amazon.com/Appledesign-Apple-Industrial-Design-G... Really appreciate your corr
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Sounds like this could push Shell to fund a beachhead market to get carbon removal companies started up. Note: folks seriously interested in carbon removal or starting a carbon removal company should check out http://airminers.or
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Wow those Polaroids are going on 42 years old. Wonder how they're preserved/archived. Incredible part of early Apple history, a lot of which was destroyed around the return of Steve Jobs to Apple in the late 90s.

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