titojankowski

make the heat go away!

heck yeah let's do that! Solar tech has gotten so much cheaper and better, my friend is replacing what used to be $30k of panels for $2k.

Hey jrv, here's 2 resources for you to get more inspiration: http://bit.ly/airminersresources http://airminers.org

this is you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ABg0c_E7OOI

looking forward to your application once you finish your training.

heck yeah! "what can a technologist do about climate change" is my daily mantra.

Politicians are powerless without good technology options.

Today, the technology options are not good. but good options are within sight. As a technologist, let's go make better tech.

Climate change is a technology problem and a marketing problem.

YC's carbon site does a great job marketing for these crucial technologies: http://carbon.ycombinator.com/

Glad you asked! Basically, imagine I told you not much had been built and climate folks don't really "get" software.

It's true. The same revolution that connected software and biotech is coming to the climate. There's tons of super duper obvious stuff that has yet to be built.

You would probably guess there's a great website for tracking carbon levels in the air. Like that's super basic right?

Well There's not...or at least there wasn't.

This was/is the gold standard: https://www.co2.earth/ https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/

Then last year a volunteer team (including me) built

http://carbondoomsday.com

it's open source on Github, you could work on that! It's a bit rough around the edges still. Could use a twitter bot!

You could also check out our index at: http://airminers.org

The software is pretty simple right now but we could improve it a lot!

Software related to climate change got stuck in the 90's...and you can break it out! Build cool shit!

Email me with any questions, see profile.

woohoo, 3 new applications so far!

For people really into carbon removal --- Check out AirMiners, the largest community of entrepreneurs, researchers, and funders exploring opportunities in negative emissions and carbon removal. Folks from every major carbon removal startups like Climeworks, Global Thermostat, etc.

Join 320+ of us on Slack!

Apply here to join: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12L8drO9a6OZf3-I9578PieBI0fw...

There's also a public meetup group in the Bay Area: https://meetup.com/CarbonRemoval/

Fascinating!

Anyone got a good source for the 103 tons per acre stat?

All I've found so far is the Bloomberg link, which I think is from the World Tree Website (the company spotlighted in the article). World Tree [1] says the source is The Environmental Resources Trust, but doesn't provide a link.

https://worldtree.info/carbon-offsets/

Wild.

10 pages on trust and not one mention of digital trust or blockchain!

Why not both?

Good point, you're totally right! I don't think they covered that in the book. Here's the relevant chapter if calculations on flight: http://withouthotair.com/c5/page_35.shtml

Fun fact: Planes are efficient for long trips. According to “sustainable energy without the hot air”, you need three people in a gas car to beat the efficiency of flying on a long trip. It seems like driving to LA with one or two people in the car is less carbon efficient than flying. With an EV you’re probably good though.

We have time to invent a fix. We can’t continue to wait for a policy change to change the world.

Technologists have the opportunity to build new solutions, improve renewable energy efficiencies, hack direct air capture. Technology holds the keys for 10,000:1 advantages.

Anyone who is interested in this...shoot me an email.

100% this! Googling for jobs is free and easy. See what's in your neighborhood. Working 40+ hours a week on solutions is the best way to up your climate game.

I like your framing -- subtractive vs additive.

Reminds me of additive manufacturing (3D printing)

Direct air capture to make consumer carbon products.

Hack direct air capture hardware.

Establish a growth curve for air capture like Moore's Law.

Do mashups. AI + climate, Biotech + climate, VR + climate.

Be curious.

and check out this index of companies and projects mining carbon from the air:

http://airminers.org

Anyone remember Kevin Rose and The Broken?

Ramzi's "hacker tip" -- "how to use Bonzi Buddy" https://youtu.be/oYYnF1ZeOo8?t=454

'Be careful, some software cost money'

I like how you're thinking from a hobbyist standpoint.

The teaspoon analogy (below) is a little flawed. It discounts technology improvement/growth.

You also have to include that:

1. teaspoon tech is in its infancy

2. if teaspoons were a few orders of magnitude cheaper and bigger, the job would be done rapidly

3. teaspoon tech has lots of promising pathways that haven't been followed

Carbon removal tech was $1,000/ton a few years ago, now it's ~$200/ton. Draw a line through those points and you might get somewhere interesting.

Go, Geoff! My interaction with him was through YC Startup School, and he and Adora did a terrific job running the program and navigating uncertainty. Excited for this next phase, and what's next for Sam!

I'm building consumer products using Carbon Engineering's carbon and carbonates. Check it out here: http://bynegative.com

“the remaining half of the CO2 was recovered from the electrolyte as plain old baking soda“

This means for every C (carbon) molecule we remove, we need one Na (sodium) molecule right?

Also, does anyone have a chart of the mentions of "climate change" on HN? I'm curious if it's rising in interest, I have alerts set so I see a lot of it but would be interesting for someone to pull actual data.

For inspiration of around helping build tools, check out the Air Miners index of 80+ startups working on removing carbon dioxide from the air: http://airminers.org

I helped build it, happy for any questions.

Interested in mining carbon from the air?

Check out the AirMiners index of 83+ startups at http://airminers.org

Please add new companies you find, too!

Come join the Carbon Doomsday project, we need backend help!

http://carbondoomsday.com

https://gitter.im/giving-a-fuck-about-climate-change/Lobby

For an overview of 80+ startups working in carbon removal, check out AirMiners: http://www.airminers.org/explore