This week host Susan Su takes you behind the scenes at the 2024 Carbon Removal Capital Summit, offering exclusive insights from the forefront of CDR innovation.

Experience the energy of the event as Susan interviews a broad lineup of industry pioneers from the most exciting carbon removal companies—live, on the conference floor. 

Learn how these innovators are advancing CDR technologies from pilot projects to full-scale implementation, and discover the bold strategies they’re using to secure funding and scale their breakthrough solutions in the fight against climate change.

On this episode Susan and talks with Martin Freimuller of Octavia Carbon who design, manufacture, and develop direct air capture technology in Kenya

00:56 Martin Freimuller of Octavia Carbon

02:28 Why Kenya is Ideal for Direct Air Capture

04:50 Operational Challenges and Advantages

10:46 The Future of Direct Air Capture

17:51 Closing Thoughts and Inspirations

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This week host Susan Su takes you behind the scenes at the 2024 Carbon Removal Capital Summit, offering exclusive insights from the forefront of CDR innovation.

Experience the energy of the event as Susan interviews a broad lineup of industry pioneers from the most exciting carbon removal companies—live, on the conference floor. 

Learn how these innovators are advancing CDR technologies from pilot projects to full-scale implementation, and discover the bold strategies they’re using to secure funding and scale their breakthrough solutions in the fight against climate change.

On this episode Susan and talks with Jason Aramburu, the CEO of Applied Carbon. Applied Carbon builds mobile machines that turn crop waste into biochar in the field.

​​00:00 Introduction to Jason Aramburu and Applied Carbon

01:14 Company’s Name Change

02:43 Addressing Waste Logistics in Carbon Removal

05:42 Overcoming Carbon Removal Costs and Benefits to Farmers

06:57 Jason's Journey and Inspiration in Biochar

10:54 The Future of Carbon Removal and Biochar

17:28 Personal Motivation

19:16 Hope and Bipartisan Support in Climate Tech

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This week host Susan Su takes you behind the scenes at the 2024 Carbon Removal Capital Summit, offering exclusive insights from the forefront of CDR innovation.

Experience the energy of the event as Susan interviews a broad lineup of industry pioneers from the most exciting carbon removal companies—live, on the conference floor. 

Learn how these innovators are advancing CDR technologies from pilot projects to full-scale implementation, and discover the bold strategies they’re using to secure funding and scale their breakthrough solutions in the fight against climate change.

On this episode Susan and talks with Omar Abou-Sayed, CEO of Valuted Deep. who sequester organic waste deep underground in earthen vaults using slurry injection technology that came out of the oil and gas industry.

01:42 Omar Abu Sayed of Vaulted Deep

01:52 Vaulted Deep's Innovative Carbon Removal Process

07:31 Scaling and Regulatory Hurdles

09:00 Future of Carbon Removal and Market Insights

13:18 Hope for the Future of Climate Action

15:52 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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This week host Susan Su takes you behind the scenes at the 2024 Carbon Removal Capital Summit, offering exclusive insights from the forefront of CDR innovation.

Experience the energy of the event as Susan interviews a broad lineup of industry pioneers from the most exciting carbon removal companies—live, on the conference floor. 

Learn how these innovators are advancing CDR technologies from pilot projects to full-scale implementation, and discover the bold strategies they’re using to secure funding and scale their breakthrough solutions in the fight against climate change.

On this episode Susan and talks with Axel Reinaud, CEO of NetZero, a company which produces biochar in the tropics from unused crop residues, and is using a franchise model. 

01:20 NetZero's Unique Approach to Biochar

05:58 Challenges in the Global South

08:15 Geographic Comparative Advantage

15:43 The Future of Carbon Removal and Industry Challenges

22:01 Final Thoughts and Industry Outlook

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This week host Susan Su takes you behind the scenes at the 2024 Carbon Removal Capital Summit, offering exclusive insights from the forefront of CDR innovation.

Experience the energy of the event as Susan interviews a broad lineup of industry pioneers from the most exciting carbon removal companies—live, on the conference floor. 

Learn how these innovators are advancing CDR technologies from pilot projects to full-scale implementation, and discover the bold strategies they’re using to secure funding and scale their breakthrough solutions in the fight against climate change.

On this episode Susan and talks with Daniel Hooft- the founder and CEO of Kelp Blue. Kelp Blue cultivates and harvests large-scale kelp forests to remove carbon, and produce sustainable biomaterials.

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Contrails are clouds of water vapor that form behind certain planes, and reducing them could cut over 65% of aviation’s climate impact—immediately and affordably. In fact, just 10% of flights are responsible for 1-2% of global warming each year. So why aren’t airlines already tackling this?

In this episode of Climate on the Edge, Susan sits down with Marc Shapiro, Director of Contrails at Breakthrough Energy, to explore groundbreaking research on contrail mitigation, one of aviation’s lesser-known but most significant climate challenges.

Mark explains how only a small fraction of flights produce contrails, but they have an outsized effect on global warming. He also shares actionable solutions, including altering flight paths and improving engine technology, that could make a huge impact.

How can small adjustments in altitude or route make flying more climate-friendly? Marc reveals how these changes could dramatically reduce the warming effects of contrails and why it’s not happening yet.

Tune in for a deep dive into this innovative approach to reducing aviation’s climate impact.

Episode Resources

Marc’s Contrail Research

MIT Tech Review on Contrail Mitigation

Roger Teoh’s paper

Satavia acquired by GE

Contrails Map

WMO Desulphurization regulations and effects

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Timestamps

00:01 Introduction

05:37 10% of global flights responsible for 1-2% of warming

08:14 Marc's research at Breakthrough Energy

11:09 American Airlines and Google

14:19 Real-world data from 85,000 flights

25:42 The challenge of predicting contrail behavior

28:58 Navigating uncertainty in flight path optimization

30:33 Modeling contrail avoidance

37:51 Challenges in measuring and reporting contrail reduction

46:09 AI’s role in improving flight path decisions

48:32 Final thoughts on climate investments and hope for the future

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With all the attention and investment going towards CDR these days, we've been wondering recently if it really is still at the frontier of climate action. 

What's at the absolute bleeding edge? Today, I'll explore that question with two guests from some of the industry's most influential organizations: Nikki Batchelor, of XPRIZE Carbon Removal and Jack Andreasen from Breakthrough Energy.

Nikki currently serves as the Executive Director of the $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal, one of the most significant efforts to date aimed at accelerating the development and scaling of carbon removal technologies. Her work focuses on identifying and nurturing innovative approaches to carbon dioxide removal (CDR) that can contribute to global climate goals.

Jack is famed for his work on climate policy, particularly in the context of carbon removal and clean energy innovation. He’s currently carbon management policy manager at Breakthrough Energy is a pan-solution organization dedicated to helping humanity avoid climate disaster through everything from policy advocacy to venture investing to philanthropy, and it’s famously founded by Bill Gates. 

They’re behind the scenes on a lot of climate intervention, and they’re backing both the thinkers and the doers.

Nikki and Jack will be our expert commentators on the latest and greatest CDR headlines, and then we’ll talk a little bit more about the topic du jour: "Is CDR still at the frontier of climate"?

Episode Links

Xprize Carbon Removal

Breakthrough Energy

DOE DAC Prize

CDR FYI report

Catona Climate Announcement

Project Mammoth

1.5 + Oxy’s Stratos facility

Heirloom

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction: Is CDR Frontier

02:20 Introducing the Guests: 

05:20 DOE's DAC Pilot Prize

08:46 The State of DAC Technology

17:06 Challenges in the Land Category

20:17 The Scarcity Mindset in CDR

30:10 AI and CDR: A New Frontier?

36:41 The Frontier of CDR: Current Innovations and Challenges

42:35 Enabling Technologies for CDR

52:18 Rapid Fire Questions

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Susan Su announces the launch of 'Climate on the Edge,' a podcast dedicated to examining advanced climate interventions necessary alongside renewables and EVs to prevent surpassing safe global temperature thresholds. 

The podcast will explore cutting-edge, often nascent technologies and ideas for climate mitigation, including carbon removal, solar radiation modification, rewilding, and other innovative approaches currently being developed around the world. 

Su emphasizes the importance of public discourse, funding, and awareness in driving these transformative efforts forward. With support from an expert team, the podcast aims to educate and inspire action on high-impact climate solutions.

This episode is an introduction to the show from Susan, who gives a brief recap of what led her to this project, and what she hopes to learn by doing this show. 

Episode Links

Rockstromm on Planetary Boundaries

NYT article on reaching tipping points

The climate change “feel test”

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