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Cool initiative!

Can we talk turkey? What's your cost of capture per ton, and how do you scale from one ton to two billion tons?

The average emissions per capita per person in the US is 15 to 20 tons per year. You're building a plant that can capture 1 ton per year.. so 1/15th of a single person. How does this make a dent?

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Thanks! You're right the current version is pretty small. The demo we're building is just about making enough product for our commercial partners to test in their facilities. That way they can confidently sign binding purchase agreements that we'll leverage to build commercial scale facilities. We're aiming to build our first commercial scale plant next year. Since our product is chemically identical to mined limestone, only much more pure we're confident we have a compatible product!

Yeah, I was wondering about that too. Is the 1 tonne a typo? Even for a demo product it doesn't seem all that much.

We're building it out to ~300 tonnes/year in the next few months. Our commercial partners don't need more than 20-30kg of product for initial testing and then just a few tonnes to run industrial testing.

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