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jsantos511

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    Comment #26158215

    Amazing point. We need more trees, and we have a lot of corn, so if we needed less corns, we could have more trees! Love it. It'll also be interesting to balance the use of that la…

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    Comment #26151369

    Not actively raising now, but would love to chat! josh [at] noyalabs.com

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    Comment #26150749

    Hey Tito! Thanks for the support - great seeing you here!

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    Comment #26150331

    Thanks for your support!

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    Comment #26150318

    Carbon taxes will absolutely help in solving this problem, and we hope regulation gets enacted to help incentivize people to think and act differently when it comes to their carbon…

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    Comment #26150309

    Sorry for the big delay in getting back to you! I'll look more into this - this isn't a solution I'm familiar with. Thanks for sharing, and thanks for your kind words and dedicatio…

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    Comment #26150138

    Thanks for bringing up the idea! We've been in contact with Maher and Karim already. Love what they're working on.

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    Comment #26149905

    Thanks for your support!

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    Comment #26149837

    thanks for the kind words!

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    Comment #26149693

    I hear you and agree - reducing emissions is a very important thing to do, followed immediately by stopping all unnecessary power wasting (like with the windows + heating problem).…

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    Comment #26149654

    This is a great way to put it - this is our MVP, or our "Tesla Roadster", and it will be used to get us to a more permanent, scalable process for carbon removal.

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    Comment #26149641

    There are some companies that are paying people to remove carbon from the atmosphere, but yes, we absolutely need more of them. Stripe has become a huge leader in the space with St…

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    Comment #26148969

    Great question - the carbon cycle definitely needs to be thought about in this scenario. The missing link here is in total embodied emissions that go into production of corn. There…

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    Comment #26148561

    Thanks for sharing - this is definitely on our radar!

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    Comment #26148539

    Absolutely right. Many carbon capture systems that are installed on top of smokestacks have much higher concentrations of CO2 than the air does (~300x higher concentrations in smok…

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    Comment #26148462

    Couldn't agree with you more - the less we emit, the less critical the need for carbon removal technologies becomes. We have two levers for reversing climate change: the first is r…

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    Comment #26148262

    Amazingly well thought out analysis - thank you. Completely agree that we will need a lot of shots on goal and many operations pulling carbon out of the air to deal with the size o…

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    Comment #26146822

    US CO2 consumption is ~64M tons / year, so 730M tons >> current US production. Next step for managing CO2 production is geologic sequestration to ensure we have something to do wit…

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    Comment #26146718

    The energy balance is going to be critical, I agree! We are still working on finalizing all the inputs for this process, including regeneration amounts, amount of heat added, etc. …

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    Comment #26146541

    Makes sense - thanks for the recommendation!

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    Comment #26146266

    There is an energy input here. The temperatures required to regenerate the CO2 from our captured solution are low enough to be produced using renewables, and this is what we're pla…

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    Comment #26146198

    The short answer is that we absolutely need more trees than we currently have, but trees alone won't be able to get us there. Trees are great at capturing CO2 from the sky, but the…

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    Comment #26146066

    Totally agree - in the short-term, it's highly likely that emissions will continue as they have. In the medium- to long-term, we're aiming to develop geologic sequestration pathway…

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    Comment #26145995

    You're absolutely right - there is much more CO2 in the sky than what the global CO2 markets can absorb. For scale: the US CO2 market consumes ~64M tons per year of CO2 [1]. We nee…

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    Comment #26145921

    Avoiding the second part of your question is where a huge chunk of our efforts are going right now. Re: liability, we accept responsibility for any damages made to the tower itself…