Graphene typically costs $200k per ton. Now scientists can make it from trash

The original press release contains substantial additional information: https://news.rice.edu/news/2020/rice-lab-turns-trash-valuabl...

Not included (but mentioned in the linked video) is the fact that the reactor chamber is basically a spark gap in a pyrex dish hooked up to bank of capacitors and plugged into the wall. They estimate the electricity costs if scaled up for industrial production would be $100/ton.

I mean it doesn't. Speaking to a VC the other day as I'm involved in the materials chemistry startup scene. He stated he was in contact with a company that's pegs about $1/g.

You'd think there'd be a process that takes the source carbon from the atmosphere instead.

The new aluminum? Once extremely valuable, now massively commoditized.