Introductions

NickAzer

Please introduce yourself to the rest of the community here. Tell us a bit about yourself, your projects and your relation to XPRIZE.

NickAzer

I'm Nick Azer, your online community manager. I live in Portland, Oregon in the US. My background is in social media and blogging; for the last 6 years, I have been social media manager and content curator on the Google Lunar XPRIZE.

If you have any community-related questions or need help, feel free to send me a message here anytime or email me at [email protected]! I'm here to help, and I'm excited about this fascinating Carbon Removal project and the impact it could have on climate change.

cnatan

Hello everyone, my name is Carlene Natan, Lead Analyst for the XPRIZE Carbon Removal Prize Design Team. Welcome to our site!!! I am very much looking forward to engaging you on the fascinating topic of carbon removal! Thank you so much for your time and participation.

brgentry

I'm Brett Gentry, currently an Entrepreneur in Residence with Carbontech Labs, part of Carbon180. I'm helping expedite Carbon Capture and Utilization startups get to market. Reach out if you have questions.

NickAzer

Welcome, @brgentry! We're happy to have you, and we're looking forward to reading your insights and opinions. We have a new discussion thread about the current landscape of carbon removal: https://community.xprize.org/carbon-removal/discussion/122/what-is-currently-being-done-in-the-carbon-removal-space-air-land-and-oceans Any input you might have would be valuable!

tito

Hey nice to meet you @NickAzer @cnatan -- and great to see you here, @brgentry!

I'm working to make consumer products out of atmospheric carbon dixoide.

Our first batch of products sold out in an hour, here's a bit more information for you: https://mailchi.mp/144bf8cda97d/airminers

Living in San Mateo, CA, a fan of the Carbon XPRIZE, glad to see this new initiative come to life!

Cheers,
Tito
[email protected]

tito

Also hi to Pol (@PolKnops) who I see registered but hasn't posted yet

bhaskarmv

Hi

I believe that growing Diatom Algae in Oceans is the best solution to cartoon capture.

Some of the Diatoms will be consumed by Zooplankton and Fish and some will sink to Ocean bed.

Both are beneficial. Increasing fish will help feed the increasing population and the Diatoms that fall to Ocean bed will sequester carbon for a long time.

josephjjames

Let's talk, as I may have a project of mutual interest.

ScotBryson

Hi everyone,
Glad to be part of the community still. I was actively involved during Round 1 & 2 of the carbon xprize and looking forward to being connected with this community moving forward.
I'm now busy building Orbital Farm which is a closed loop farming system that uses CO2, electricity and water at the main inputs of the system and produces fresh vegetables, fruits, fish and vegan protein powders.

I'm located in Toronto Canada but we are looking to deploy our projects around the world.

Looking forward to connecting together with everyone here.

Scot

josephjjames

Scot:

Thanks for your info. I would love to explore a collaboration, in the US's eastern seaboard.

Let's talk.

Regards,

JJJ

NickAzer

Great to have you here @bhaskarmv @josephjjames and @ScotBryson! We have several categories posted for feedback - Background and Current Landscape; we'd love to have your input on both!

Joe- I see you've already posted a response to Current Landscape, thank you!

jamesburbridge

Hello everyone,
My name is James Burbridge, Senior Associate for the carbon removal prize design team. My background is in energy journalism, most recently covering North American carbon trading markets in California, Canada, and the mid-Atlantic RGGI states. I'm looking forward to re-engaging with this space and conversing with you all on the exciting world of carbon removal.

Slaby

Hi everyone,

I'm Todd Slaby, currently running my own small management consulting practice. I have a synthetic biology background working at the intersection of carbon efficiency and industrial products. I've worked to optimize operations in both science and business at Amyris and Intrexon leading me to the intersection of biology and tech. Questions about sustainability and the status of our species's efforts led me first to Carbon180 and now here.

I'm coming in having seen commercial synergy between carbon utilization efficiency and industrial emissions. Through participation here I hope to learn and in turn help others turn innovation into impact.

eobermeier

Hello everyone,

I'm Elizabeth Obermeier and I work at Apogee. I attended the XPRIZE Carbon Removal Workshop earlier this month and am excited to continue engaging on this topic.

Looking forward to connecting and sharing information.

Elizabeth

NickAzer

Welcome, Todd and Elizabeth! @Slaby @eobermeier We're excited to see your ideas on Carbon Removal. Our most recent discussion is on a study from the National Academies - we'd love your input there!: https://community.xprize.org/carbon-removal/discussion/165/discussion-of-national-academies-study And on any of the discussions in Current Landscape and Background!

peterk

hi, I am Peter Kelemen. I am focusing on carbon mineralization, for permanent, solid CO2 storage and for CO2 capture from air (CDR, for storage and/or utilization). I work at Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, where I also study natural carbon mineralization, together with hydration and oxidation during weathering, the subduction zone carbon cycle, ... If you're interested in this work, I have a Google Scholar page that seems to stay up to date in some magical way. I helped with the recent National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine report on Negative Emissions Technologies ... I learned a lot about soil carbon and forest mitigation strategies. The agriculture and forestry specialists on that committee emphasized that these avenues have great promise, but decided that these alone cannot remove enough CO2 to stay below 1.5 to 2 degrees C of warming. Thus, I continue to pursue my specific ideas. From what I am seeing on this site so far, I think ideas about large-scale CDR via carbon mineralization are relatively conservative, and the XPRIZE community interest will lie elsewhere. It's ironic that ideas that have never been tested in a field experiment are considered "conservative". I sure hope that, collectively, we all come up with one or two things that can be implemented at the Gt scale within a decade.

CPConsoli

My name is Chris Consoli; I work for the Global Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Institute as a senior consultant. I work internationally in the low carbon energy industry with technical expertise in the geological storage of CO2.

I have been in the industry for ten years riding all the ups and downs of CCS. I have completed low carbon energy/CCS road maps, assessments, industry decarbonisation reports and research. Recently I have been analysing negative emissions technologies- primarily bioenergy CCS and direct air CCS. A big future there.

I look forward to being part of this community.

NickAzer

Hi, Chris and Peter @CPConsoli @peterk! Peter, I've seen you've already posted some responses, thank you. We'll be posting new discussions in both Background and Current Landscape on a regular basis. You guys both have really valuable experience and expertise - we look forward to discussing with you on these topics more!

Doug

Hi Everyone

My name is Doug Gann, I'm an archaeological anthropologist living in a rural space near the Mexican border in southern Arizona. (Take everything you read in the news media about what is happening here with a large crystal of salt - nuff said about that.) In graduate school I studied under people like "garboloigist" William Rathje, material scientists like David Kingery, and technologists like Mike Schiffer. We are all interested in how archaeology could be a tool to help understand and improve the lives of ourselves and our communities today.

I think we can save the world by turning our concepts of recycling and consumerism upside down. Proofs of the concepts and technologies needing to be perfected might make for a perfect X Prize competition.

evmorton

My name is Evvan Morton. I am a PhD student in Sustainable Engineering at Arizona State University. My advisor is Dr. Klaus Lackner. My research focuses on carbon capture and storage technology and policy. I am looking at policies that are currently used in the United States to manage CO2 such as the Clean Air Act, taxes, and cap and trade and why these policies may not be adequate. Managing CO2 through a waste management perspective may be a better route toward combating climate change. I am also looking at the responsible innovation/ethics of CCS.

rossnori

Hello! I'm Ross Kenyon, lead strategist of the Nori carbon removal marketplace, and I work on the Reversing Climate Change and Carbon Removal Newsroom podcasts. So happy y'all are doing this. I'd like to learn more about how I might be able to foster the ecosystem you're helping to create.

NickAzer

Welcome, @Doug @evmorton and @rossnori! Thanks so much for joining us here. We have some new discussions in Background it'd be great to have your input on!

NickAzer

Hi @Doug @evmorton @rossnori @CPConsoli @peterk @eobermeier @Slaby @ScotBryson @tito @vsick @Elaine71 @jiwlp @pmac @krushtonski and @brgentry - we have a new section up for discussion! This new subforum is on Metrics for the Prize; the first thread can be found here and then a follow-up thread can be found here. Looking forward to your feedback! And let us know if you have any questions. (And if you haven't yet, be sure to check out the draft concept prize design!)

jonathankolber

Hello! I'm Jonathan Kolber, author of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and A Celebration Society, and investor in tech startups. My passion is for finding ways that we can create societies of sustainable technological abundance.

In my view, it's unlikely that reducing the generation of new atmospheric and oceanic CO2 alone will be sufficient to avert a climate crisis. That said, I've been noticing that discussions of CO2 remediation seem to lump all geoengineering technologies into one category, with serious concern for possible uncontrollable side effects. However, a few such technologies are "throttleable", meaning that they can be turned down following installation, thereby controlling any side effects.

Given this important feature, I believe it's now possible to develop a road map for "Paris II: The Implementation Mechanism". Crucial to this is the possibility of transforming CO2 capture from a problem and a cost into a benefit and an opportunity.

I have prepared and shared with the X Prize team a draft of this idea. I would welcome thoughts from others on how this road map might be strengthened and even implemented.

Write me if you'd like a copy. It's three pages.

Best,

Jonathan

PS--I am not advocating giving fossil fuels a pass nor an extension. In my view, fossil fuels have long been replaceable. I am trying to find a way forward that is attainable and sufficient.

I think we must accept that the fossil fuel interests remain powerful and will be for decades to come. What can we actually, rapidly accomplish in that context?

jonathankolber

Just today, I learned of Prof. Kenneth Rogoff's proposal for a World Carbon Bank. Might this better serve as part of such a bank's implementation than new Paris-type accords?

(link: https://futurism.com/the-byte/economist-world-carbon-bank-climate-change?mc_eid=d013f5c114&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=f157f9024f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_09_05_22&mc_cid=f157f9024f&utm_source=The Future Is&utm_term=0_03cd0a26cd-f157f9024f-246132493)