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Re:$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal by etaioinshrdlu on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @04:09PM (#27825674)
There may be a pattern here of YC funding carbon removal techniques that perhaps cannot work at all. Here's another one: Remora https://www.remoracarbon.com/

As far as I know there is no research paper on the topic ... nothing to indicate it actually is a viable solution.

They also don't want to talk to anyone about hard questions. It's like the Theranos of carbon removal, using Silicon-valley style secrecy.

I can't help but feel that if we are to successfully save the climate, it won't be dependent on secrecy.

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Re:$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal by yurisagalov on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @12:45AM (#27829803)
> “ As far as I know there is no research paper on the topic ... nothing to indicate it actually is a viable solution.”

Come on.

Remora is literally founded from their CTO’s PhD thesis.

From their website: “ Christina pioneered Remora’s technology during her engineering PhD at the University of Michigan, becoming one of the world’s leading experts on mobile carbon capture. She went on to test a mobile carbon capture prototype in the EPA’s National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Lab”

If you Google “Christina Reynolds Carbon Capture” you will get, as a first result, a link to her PhD thesis:

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/1515...

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