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NickAzer
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Please introduce yourself to the rest of the community here. Tell us a bit about yourself, your projects and your relation to XPRIZE.
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If you have any community-related questions or need help, feel free to send me a message here anytime or email me at nick.azer@xprize.org! I'm here to help, and I'm excited about this fascinating Carbon Removal project and the impact it could have on climate change.
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
tito@impossiblelabs.io
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.
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
Thanks for your info. I would love to explore a collaboration, in the US's eastern seaboard.
Let's talk.
Regards,
JJJ
Joe- I see you've already posted a response to Current Landscape, thank you!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
(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)
As a Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Michigan, I have been working with the Michigan Industrial Hemp Association, and the Cannabis community in general, to successfully, fully legalize hemp in Michigan (which is now a reality) and advance Hemp as an alternative, carbon-negative source of fuel, plastic, fiber, cellulose (wood, paper), edible oil, protein, flour. Hemp cultivation is ready to be exploited to sequester carbon as a source of raw materials that can replace raw materials obtained from petroleum. We are particularly excited that Elon Musk is supporting this initiative, since we envision hemp as the first crop that will be planted in Mars to sequester carbon and convert it into biomass that can, by itself, support that establishment of a thriving human colony.
My research group is seeking to develop the most efficient methods for hemp cultivation for each particular derived product (food, fuel, fiber, biomaterial for 3D printing, etc) by 1) Mass Balance studies of crops, in order to keep track of the rate of Carbon sequestration of different hemp cultivars in relation to the consumption and waste of other resources necessary for cultivation (e.g. water, Potassium, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Sulfur, etc); 2) Quantitative multivariate retrospective studies to understand the relative contribution of the plant genetics/phenotype and cultivation conditions (soil pH, temperature, spacing between plants, etc) to the rate of Carbon sequestration in relation to resource utilization; 3) Prospective, case-control studies to ascertain that each parameter is contributing to the rate of Carbon sequestration as determined by the retrospective studies; 4) development of field-based automated, high throughput screening technologies for breeding experiments geared towards identifying genetic variants with improved rates of Carbon sequestration.
This research program is completely innovative, since this is the first time we will be specifically optimizing Carbon Sequestration of an agricultural crop, by applying a quantitative, systems-based mass balance approach in field studies in order to optimize production of specific products. Right now, we are in a position to establish academic-private industry partnerships with the goal of optimizing hemp-derived cellulose materials for producing plastics, graphene, or for conversion into lactic acid or ethanol.
We are wondering if you would consider such a research program of interest to the X-Prize competition for Carbon Sequestration. To the extent this research program is successfully supported, we not only envision using hemp as a replacement for other plant-based sources of wood, fiber, protein, oil, and flour, but also as an alternative to coal and petroleum as a fuel and as a source of organic, small molecule building blocks for synthesis of pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, and polymers for advanced 3D printing technologies. For additional information on hemp, please refer to the following Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp
In terms of my background, I am the first Professor in the history of the United States to teach an entire, 2-credit undergraduate course devoted to the topic of "Medicinal Cannabis". For the past twenty years, I have led a pharmaceutical sciences research group that performs mass balance studies on the transport and disposition of small molecule chemical agents in living organisms. We study these phenomena from a whole population level all the way down to a subcellular and molecular level. Our approach is quantitative and mathematical -based on General Systems Theory- and thus it can be applied to crops as well as it can be applied to the human population.
Please consider and let me know if this is something you would be interested in supporting. Also, if you could give me information about how to apply for this program and the amounts of funding that you are considering giving, that would be a tremendous help in terms of preparing my application.
Thank you in advance for considering the development of advanced hemp cultivation technologies as the most promising avenue for carbon sequestration!
Sincerely,
Professor Gus R. Rosania, PhD
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Michigan College of Pharmacy
428 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
email: grosania@umich.edu
Cell: 734-358-5661
I'm Sigil, a 17-year-old creative wizard, full-stack developer, and YouTuber. As someone young, I'm trying to design my growth and trajectory to work on solving problems like Carbon Capture which has led me to the XPrize Community
I'm also a part of a student innovation program working on a capstone project with the XPRIZE. The goal is for us to provide recommendations on how to improve the amount of high-quality/diverse teams that participate in prizes like Elon's Carbon Capture prize and future prizes. My current hypothesis is that community plays an invaluable role in removing barriers of entry to XPrize (funding, access to talent, direction, incentive) and increasing participation from diverse, quality teams so I'm immersing myself into XPrize's community. Initial questions I have include how we could increase engagement, retention, and community value as well as increasing community involvement from non-English speaking XPrizers @NickOttens @NickAzer .
I also recently created a TikTok promoting the XPrize Carbon Capture Challenge that might put a smile on your face
All the best,
Sigil
sigilwen.com
sigil.w3n@gmail.com