Engineer and deploy high speed process to solidify carbon from atmospheric CO₂.
@titojankowski It was very lightly attended. Met a new member Scott and refereed him to the CARBON RUSH -- The Next Mega-Trillion Frontier meetup and http://manylabs.org. He's reviewing the current entrepreneurial carbon projects to decide how to contribute.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y7CcI4ykhJOYWqAJrvR04elrDbBKe9CFXuSjns1nCJA/edit#gid=0 We need to get CDR to scale to make this happen.
@/all I created a jupyter notebook of the CDR Experiments for Susan's and my upcoming paper. The notebook and magicc input files for the new paper are on github: https://github.com/hsbay/cdrmex.
I do need volunteers for the Maker Faire! 5/17-19! And especially when I'm talking on CDR on the 18th. dm me.
ONC Meetup, 9/20 12:30 PDT: https://meet.google.com/fuj-wszx-pqv
I'm at Peet's in Santa Clara.
Discovery Days volunteer form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19fIWeBTOkV4o3B_xfCDEXP7nsXNKo7d1qjFDFry5Fho
OnC will be Discovery Days in SR, and SF.
(And I'll physically be at the UCSF lib on Parnassus St in SF tonight.)
Once ONC finds the fastest way to go to solid C from CO₂, it allows nearly all of these markets to store carbon and become a Negative Emissions Technology: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1pZRQcMRGDybmGChXYFyawuOJWIIo8RXlq4ngw2csyms/. I say nearly all because forming a carbonate rock is likely to be faster than an electrochemical process.
Why create a portfolio allocation? Because most people are touting individual solutions but they can't globally reach gigatonne scale. A combined retooling of multiple industries, albeit resource-intensive, will allow us to have multiple markets when aggregated capable of negative emissions in the gigatonne scale. Other people have simply been overwhelmed with the negative and are trying to tune out to the climate discussion. This document is meant to be a seed to incentivize thinking different about carbon use and reengineering products to ultimately create a market to pay for DAC.
Feel free to direct message @safiume here via Gitter or chat in this room.
Meetup moved to Meetup room -> https://gitter.im/opennanocarbon/meetup , hope to see you there tomorrow.
A reminder, this group is focused on going from to chemical (possibly plasma) methods where most of the product is solid carbon. Chemical routes to carbon monoxide aren't exactly relevant. I say exactly, as it's only going to be relevant if we exhaust the search of going to solid carbon. There are some reactions in plasma that take carbon monoxide and get solid carbon and back, which could be fed back. This is seen as a waste since it's energy-intensive. Not ideal in the slightest.
Actually something cool that was passed to me is Tamaura, Y., & Tahata, M. (1990). Complete reduction of carbon dioxide to carbon using cation-excess magnetite. Nature, 346(6281), 255–256.
This paper shows that absorbed onto cation-excess magnetite will end up that oxygen will be absorbed and diffused through the magnetite, while most carbon will end up on the surface. Neat. A small amount of was generated. The experiment was not a standard temperature and requires 290ºC and some pressurized (g). The conversion rate is low, given the energy needed to reach 290ºC, 2.9-3.5 x 10^-3 mol per min per g of cation excess magnetite. However, it gives me ideas related to liquid metal electrocatalysts.
My kit is wine+pymagicc exactly like what's written in the docs for pymagicc and CDRMEx, on MacOS.
Thanks for following @TTimo! ONC is a work in progress and hopefully going to do actual cool stuff shortly.
Yes, lots of breadcrumbs. The most current is the work adapting pymagicc to do CDR and test CDR in large scale formats and pull down SFGhG to meet net-zero/elimination of FF industry by 2030. Right now the current worksheets remove 455GtC to get to about zero. It ought to move upwards since we've exceeded 460 GtC for FF CO₂ (this year, sadly.) Second, is to do calibrate removal similar to the work in RCMIPS: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2019-375, but in a more abbreviated manner. I started that w/ hsbay/cdrmex#6.
@safiume we can talk?
Thanks for the paper heads up!