titojankowski

If all "tropical forests" were in a single country, at 0.425 Gigatons per year of emissions that country would be the #14 most polluting in the world! [1]

The article above estimates 0.425 Gigatons of carbon dioxide per year being emitted by from the world's tropical forests. This is 1.3% of yearly global emissions! [2]

What if forests flipped from friend to foe, with poorly managed forests becoming liabilities?

[1] 2016 Carbon Dioxide emissions by country (http://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/overview.php?v=CO2andGHG1970-2...)

[2] 2017 Global Carbon Dioxide emissions at 32.5 Gigaton (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-carbon-iea/global-...)

“In many cases throughout the tropics you have selective logging, or smallholder farmers removing individual trees for fuel wood. These losses can be relatively small in any one place, but added up across large areas they become considerable."

Also, the research paper itself has a helpful satellite map in the appendix: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1126/science.aam5962

Excited to launch this! We worked with Carbon Engineering to get their carbon captured using direct air capture. We believe it's the first consumer product to use direct air capture.

cool! dont bother reading the negative crap, it's pervasive and people get addicted to it. just keep your eyes tuned for solutions and more will appear.

check out http://www.airminers.org/explore for some solutions, mining carbon from the air

sweet, what are you working on? We're capturing carbon from the atmosphere.

Anyone founders want to join our study group in San Mateo?

email me: tito@impossiblelabs.io

Adidas sold 1 million pairs of its shoes made from ocean plastic [1]. Wonder what the market for ocean plastic is like?

https://www.theinertia.com/environment/adidas-sold-1-million...

I'm not familiar with "cyclic organic structures". The article says they're hard for chemists to make and perhaps biology makes it easier -- but why are they useful in the first place?

I think HN is a great platform to discuss climate solutions because it isn’t a climate change community. Curious to hear from others as well!

To me, how “real” something is correlates roughly with the number of people pursuing it, and how vigorously they pursue it.

To that end, we started Impossible Labs in 2016, skipped over the whole “climate debate” of the 1990s and 2000s, and started putting our full time work into climate solutions.

That’s why I helped create http://airminers.org. It’s an index of 80+ startups and projects pursuing climate change as an economic opportunity, mining carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. To me this is pretty solid “proof”, though by no means science-based.

However, I also wrote a popular article “no one gives a fuck about climate change”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14492180

The article’s HN discussion sparked the Carbon Doomsday project and git repo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16332595

I tried their calculator with 18 tons (36,000 pounds). It said ~1050 trees @ $0.10 per tree, so $105 total per year. vs $45 or whatever on Terrapass.

Let’s shoot for an order of magnitude difference. How might we sell it for $4.50 a year?

A recent survey from Yale shows “A majority of Americans (63%) say they are “very” or “somewhat” worried about the issue”.

So we’ve got “permission”. Let’s get to work. I’m excited about putting my efforts into solutions. Here’s a few: http://airminers.org

Yale survey: http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-ch...

Perhaps this additional plant growth is the key to the growth of the seasonal "rise and fall" of carbon dioxide since 1958. (see http://carbondoomsday.com/)

i.e. in 1962 the seasonal cycle up-down was roughly 6 parts per million. By 2017 it is 40% bigger, 10 parts per million.

Full article from Nature: https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3...

If plants sucked up more of it we would be all set -- though carbon dioxide keeps rising in the atmosphere for now :O

Quest for Faerun / Questwars was my crack. Incredible MUD: http://www.mudconnect.com/SMF/index.php?topic=75470.0

Have you paid to plant trees? I tried Terrapass a month ago and blogged about it, it was all right: http://titojankowski.com/blew-some-money-on-carbon-offsets/

Fascinating to think the climate has so many different variables. Such a large system, a little pressure in one spot results in a spike somewhere else.

“They must be stopped, she believes, and the 2015 CDC map shows why. In it, ticks are seen moving into places that only a decade before had been considered ill-suited to support them, from the Allegheny Mountains to the Mississippi Valley, from western Pennsylvania south and east across Kentucky and Tennessee. In Minnesota and Wisconsin, I scapularis ‘appears to have expanded in all cardinal directions’, the CDC researchers reported in language that was sometimes remarkable and alarming.”

Here's the github repo for "Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air: https://github.com/titojankowski/sustainable_energy_without_...

Would love a new commit of some sort :)

YC’s new "Carbon Removal Technologies" RFS: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#carbon

Index of 82 startups and projects mining carbon from the air: http://airminers.org

(disclosure: airminers.org co-creator)

and since this article is 6 months old, any updates in the meantime?

I’m rooting for the future of carbon materials as a way to monetize atmospheric cabon dioxide. So this article pointed out a few opportunities for carbon:

1. robotic assembly of carbon products to lower costs

2. eliminating use of synthetic polymers in the process

3. learning more about “carbon nanotubes are asbestos”

Thank you! We'll get that fixed.

Interesting! How are you evaluating "dormant"? Curious to know, their sites look fairly active to me, perhaps I missed something.

Thanks for the bug report! What browser/OS are you using?

Here's a few biochar companies you might find interesting:

http://www.biocharsolutions.com/

https://www.biocarbontech.com/

http://blackcarbon.dk/

https://www.carboculture.com/

http://fullcirclebiochar.com/

(list is from AirMiners, index of companies mining carbon from the air, plus lots of other sequestration tech: http://airminers.org)

This may be useful to figuring out how to get involved -- here's an index we made of all the existing carbon removal startups and companies: http://airminers.org

Agree with your logic regarding avoiding additional emissions. The extra piece that this RFS add is, we've got about a trillion tons of extra carbon already up in the atmosphere, how do we mine it?

Woohoo, congrats Gustaf!

Index of startups and technologies for mining carbon from the air: http://airminers.org

We built Air Miners to catalog what exists so hackers can find the gaps in carbon removal and build new solutions :)

YCombinator just posted a new RFS for "Carbon Removal Technologies" (https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#carbon).

We built Air Miners to catalog what exists so you can find the gaps in carbon removal and build new solutions :)

Thank you for your work! Any thoughts on emoji that indicate the following sentiments:

1. air miners (http://airminers.org)

2. the changing climate will create the first trillionaire

3. climate change is the biggest financial opportunity civilization has ever seen

4. climate change is an opportunity for passionate people around the world to change the world, right now, right where you are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4vOmwSms6A

5. give a fuck about climate change: http://carbondoomsday.com

6. together we start: http://purin.co/In-Three-Emojis

7. Feel the warming: http://purin.co/Feel-The-Warming

8. Connect our efforts: http://purin.co/Connect-Our-Efforts

You are doing important work!

oh this is sweet! Come join our Gitter chat: https://gitter.im/giving-a-fuck-about-climate-change/Lobby

We made this: http://carbondoomsday.com

(background blog post: http://titojankowski.com/no-one-gives-a-fck-about-climate-ch...)

Thanks for all the feedback everybody! Luke plugged in all your thoughts into issues on GitHub so we can keep track: https://github.com/giving-a-fuck-about-climate-change/carbon...