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📰WEB POSTS Terraform NowYou’re reading Terraform Now, my newsletter on carbon capture and other planet-altering technologies. To support my work, you can subscribe here: TLDR: Storing CO2 underground is a better long-term option than using CO2 for fuels, fertilizer, etc. These ‘utilization’ markets are too small… 11 days ago · Joe Rigodanzo
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💼JOB OPPORTUNITIES“The PowerGeolab is led by Ian Power, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Geoscience, and based in the School of the Environment at Trent University in beautiful Peterborough, Canada.The solid Earth is intricately connected to the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere with such complexity that many questions remain regarding how the interactions between these “spheres” shape the environment. The goal of our research is to better understand fundamental geochemical, mineralogical, and geobiological processes that are relevant to addressing environmental challenges including carbon dioxide removal, an emerging field in geosciences that is ripe for scientific inquiry and technological advances.”
“EDAC Labs’ core innovation is an electrochemical cell that enables low-energy splitting of brine into acids and bases. While acids and bases have a wide range of uses, EDAC Labs’ first two applications are: 1) carbon-negative mining and 2) direct air carbon capture and sequestration. We also plan to sell electrochemical systems to developers doing ocean alkalinity enhancement, direct ocean capture, and enhanced weathering.”
“Inplanet's vision is to sequester 1 GT of CO2 while regenerating tropical soils in order to create a livable planet with nutritious food and healthy ecosystems for future generations. They remove Carbon with natural rock powder.”
“Oak Ridge National Laboratory is seeking a postdoctoral research associate who will support the Geochemistry and Interfacial Sciences Group in the Chemical Sciences Division, Physical Sciences Directorate (PSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The postdoctoral research associate will focus on carbonation reactions of MgO and reaction-induced fracturing.”
🎙️PODCASTS“We’ve talked about this in other places, but cement manufacturing is a real problem child when it comes to carbon emissions; yet concrete construction isn’t going away any time soon. In this deeply interesting podcast segment, we meet Dr Jesse Benck of Sublime Systems in Massachusetts USA, where they’re working to completely change the process of cement production. They’re aiming high – not just net zero carbon, but true zero – and have adopted a practical, scalable approach from the outset to bring this process to the huge global market that is concrete construction.”
“Extreme heat. What does it feel like? Why is it getting worse and who is it impacting?In this Reversing Climate Change podcast episode, we spoke with Jeff Goodell, contributing editor at Rolling Stone and author of The Water Will Come and his latest, The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.Tune in to hear about Jeff Goodell's personal experience with extreme heat. Learn about what cities are doing to combat the urban heat island effect, and what the true costs of adaptation will likely be.Could certain cities become uninhabitable due to escalating heat levels? Ross and Jeff explore the variations in heat adaptation across different regions and income brackets, along with the possibility of introducing new labor laws in response to heat-related challenges.The discussion also delves into the preparedness of the U.S. military for climate change impacts, the future outlook for ranking or naming extreme heat events, and the implications for the fossil fuel industry and the transition to clean energy.One thing becomes clear, as temperatures continue to rise: the Phoenix, Las Vegas, or Austin that people know and love, is going to look very different in the future.The show also discusses Jeff's long-running reportage on both carbon removal and geoengineering, and evaluates the status of both ideas, and what's likely to play out in the near-future.”
Methane-Eating Microbes on a Mission | My Climate Journey
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“Josh Silverman is the CEO and founder of Windfall Bio, which transforms methane into nitrogen-rich organic soil nutrients using naturally occurring methane-eating microbes. With a strong background in biotechnology, Josh has founded multiple successful ventures in the field, raising over $300 million in equity financing and generating a cumulative exit value exceeding $1.7 billion.After co-founding Calysta, a cellular agriculture company that converts methane into sources of protein for livestock and other food ingredients, Josh turned his attention to other ways to tackle the problem of atmospheric methane, which led him to start Windfall. Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) gets the bulk of attention in the greenhouse gas removal space, but methane is responsible for a significant portion of the planetary warming that we are experiencing. Methane is up to 80 times more potent than CO2 from a heat-trapping perspective and is significantly more diffuse than CO2 in the atmosphere, making it challenging to capture or remove it once released. While there are growing sources of anthropogenic methane released via natural gas infrastructure, livestock, rice cultivation, as well as landfills and waste processing, there are also significant naturally occurring pockets of methane released in the oceans and arctic tundra, which are likely to only increase on a warming planet, a case study in feedback loops leading to climate change tipping points.Josh and Cody dive into the problem of methane, as well as Windfall's solution and how Josh has grown the business. They also cover Josh’s background and experience in the space. The MCJ Collective Venture Fund is a proud investor in Windfall, and we’re grateful to Leron Gidig at EDF for introducing us to Josh as part of EDF's Climate Tech Convening event in the fall of 2022.”
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📺YOUTUBE VIDEOSShell's Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology | Shell “More than a decade ago, the first academic studies appeared on the concept of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from air at scale. Today, the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agree that DAC technology can play an important role in realising a net-zero emissions energy system, where the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere no longer increases, that is, the amount of CO2 is equivalent to the amount being removed. At Shell, we are committed to delivering more value with less emissions. The development of DAC technology is one potential pathway to achieving this goal, meaning it could accelerate our journey to become a net-zero emissions energy business. DAC uses man-made equipment to remove CO2 from the air. Air from the atmosphere is first stripped of CO2. The CO2-depleted air is then released back into the atmosphere, while the captured CO2 could be permanently stored underground or reused as feedstock in, for instance, the production of e-chemicals or in e-fuels. An example is synthetic kerosene, a type of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) made from CO2, water and renewable power. In 2021, in a world-first, a KLM Boeing 737 commercial passenger service flew from Amsterdam to Madrid, fuelled by 500 litres of certified synthetic kerosene, produced at Shell’s Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam (ETCA).
NERC BIO Carbon programme: the BRICS project | NERCscience U.S. investing billions in carbon-sucking vacuums to combat climate change | CBS News “The Biden administration is investing over $1 billion on a new technology aimed at sucking out greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere. Evan Halper, a business reporter for The Washington Post, explains how the devices, known as "direct air capture" vacuums, could potentially help combat climate change.”
Green Carbon Webinar - Effect of Biochar on Soil Quality, Carbon Storage, and Crop Yield | Christian Wurzer “Green Carbon Webinar from 15th June 2023 by Van Hien Nguyen (Soils and Fertilizers Research Institute, Vietnam).This talk was presented as part of the Green Carbon Webinar Series. Visit www.greencarbonwebinar.org for free registration to future talks and www.enchar.co for your biochar procurement.”
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