A Plea to Weather Presenters
Presenters should strengthen the link between extreme weather events and climate change.
You Should Care About Carbon Margins
This is part of a series in which I badger the CDR industry into taking Woody Biomass Storage (WBS) more seriously. Today I describe why you should consider the importance of “Carbon Margins.” In business a “Profit Margin” is a way of identifying how profitable a business is. For example, you would say the net […]
Woody Biomass Storage vs. Kontiki Biochar
Statistician George Box famously stated “All models are wrong but some are useful.” I present here a simplified (read, “wrong”) model intended to contextualize the usefulness of Woody Biomass Storage (WBS). I hope scientists and researchers will come along and make similar models that are equally “useful” but less “wrong”. Additionally, my mentors at Airminers […]
You’re thinking About Durability Wrong
The thought process around durability should be about keeping as much greenhouse gas (ghg) out of the air as long as possible. This should be considered holistically, and should include any scope 1/2/3 emissions in the production and maintenance process. Currently under most CDR methodologies, durability is thought of as the durability of the “Net […]
The Time Value of Emissions Should Be a Thing
We should agree that a unit of carbon emissions today is worse than the same unit of carbon emissions in the future, especially the distant future. This is true for several reasons: So, from a variety of perspectives, it’s better to emit in the future than to emit today. If you had to choose between […]
We should all fight our prejudices
At Climate Week San Francisco last week my colleagues met lots of people interested in fighting rapid climate change through Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). The interested parties included CDR investors, CDR buyers, CDR-supporting governments, CDR pundits, CDR scientists and members of the general public. They all want to do good for the planet, but are […]
Global Warming Potential is more important than you think
Hmmm… Global Warming Potential (GWP). Time Value of Money (TVM). Whaddya talking about? This is torture. All these acronyms involve math! We hates ‘em! These two concepts are really important though, and if you have any interest in fighting climate change, you’ll want to understand them both, or at least the general idea. One […]
Gettin’ Traction
Every leader, founder, entrepreneur, and CEO knows how important it is to raise money. In importance, it sits just behind building a solid team and building a broad set of partners and stakeholders. Our first financial “raise” (beyond a supportive set of friends and family) was modest and took place around the beginning of 2024. […]
The Green Grass Growing All Around
This may not look like much, but it is a piece of evidence supporting the viability of Woody Biomass Storage (WBS). Last September we completed a ~100 tonne WBS project in Southern Colorado. We engineered, permitted, communicated, excavated, buried, measured, reported, and verified. We’re currently in the process of monetizing. We also Revegetated. In October […]
MRV in Woody Biomass Storage
Acronyms! I’m absolutely sick of acronyms! Every time I turn around there is another acronym. GWP? TRL? TEA? LCA? CBP? WBS? TSB? The list goes on. Over time they become more familiar, but, we should all remember: Knowing a Three Letter Acronym (TLA) when another person does not, is not a badge of honor. It […]