This is CDR

In this episode of This Is CDR OpenAir welcomes Dr. Greg Nemet of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and author of How Solar Became Cheap, to teach us about low-carbon innovation and how we can push CDR down the cost curve. Co-hosted by OpenAir members Jared Hunter and Chris Neidl ABOUT OUR GUEST - https://www.howsolargotcheap.com/ Gregory Nemet, PhD is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin...

In this episode of This Is CDR OpenAir welcomes Mission Zero CEO Dr. Nicholas Chadwick to tell us about the company’s modular, electrochemical, and low-cost DAC process, and plans for deployment and scale. Mission Zero’s technology can deploy rapidly using existing supply chains that exist globally today whilst consuming 3-5x less energy than other approaches. Dr. Chadwick will speak about the com...

In this episode of This Is CDR OpenAir welcomes Inherit Carbon Solutions co-founders Kaja Voss and Mike Carpenter to tell us about the company’s highly scalable CDR method of capture and geologic sequestration of biogenic CO2 from biogas, waste treatment, landfill, and other anaerobic digestion processes. Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan. ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS - www.inheritcs.com Kaja Voss is...

In this episode of This Is CDR, OpenAir is pleased to welcome Takachar Co-Founder and CTO Kevin Kung to tell us about the company’s Earthshot and CarbonX Prize-winning modular distributed thermochemical process for converting waste biomass to biochar and other valuable materials. Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan ABOUT OUR SPEAKER - https://www.takachar.com/ Kevin Kung is the co-founder and...

This Is CDR is pleased to welcome Verdox Co-Founder and Dr. Sahag Voskian and Head of Business Development Jonte Boysen to tell us how the company’s scalable, cost-effective electroswing adsorption (ESA) platform technology, originally developed at MIT, can remove CO2 from the air with 70% energy savings versus conventional approaches. Brought to you by www.openaircollective.cc and hosted by Toby...

This week on This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome Dr. Peter Kelemen of Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory to tell us about his extensive research into mineralization pathways for CDR. Peter Kelemen studies the chemical and physical processes of reaction between fluids and rocks. He has worked on the genesis and evolution of oceanic and continental crust, chemical cycles in sub...

In this episode of This Is CDR we welcome Peter Olivier and Jim Mann, Chief of Innovation and Co-Founder and CEO of the Future Forest Company. Peter and Jim present on FFC's scalable, durable approach to forestry based carbon removal and how enhanced weathering and biochar can be applied to improve productive land. https://thefutureforestcompany.com/

In this episode of This Is CDR OpenAir welcome's Shantanu Agarwal who will tell us about Sustaera’s “DAC 2.0” pathway that is modular and ready to deploy and scale. Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan. ABOUT OUR GUEST - www.sustaera.com Shantanu Agarwal is a climate tech entrepreneur with more than 20 year of energy industry experience. Shantanu is Co-Founder and CEO for Sustaera, a company fo...

In this episode of This Is CDR we are very excited to welcome CarbonPlan’s Policy Director Danny Cullenward to teach us about important standards for CDR such as additionality, durability, life-cycle analysis, measurement and verification. Hosted by OpenAir members Chris Neidl and Megha Raghavan. www.openaircollective.cc ABOUT OUR SPEAKER - www.carbonplan.org Danny Cullenward is an energy economis...

In this episode of This Is CDR we are very excited to welcome Professors Kate Moran and Dave Goldberg, who will tell us about Solid Carbon, an ambitious and important integrated direct air capture and carbon storage project being planned for deployment off the Pacific coast of British Columbia. Hosted by Toby Bryce and Nikhil Neelakantan, This Is CDR is a weekly webinar presented by OpenAir - www....

In this episode This Is CDR is pleased to welcome Dr. Ning Zeng of the University of Maryland to tell us about the opportunity to durably sequester carbon at low cost and significant scale via Wood Harvesting and Storage (WHS), the secure burial of waste woody biomass. Dr. Zeng is the founder of the Carbon Lockdown Project and the world’s leading expert on this emergent CDR pathway. Hosted by Toby...

This week on This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome Max Scholten and Noah McQueen to talk about Heirloom’s innovative DAC technology that enhances the earth’s natural mineralization processes to create a cost-effective and highly scalable CDR pathway. Hosted by Toby Bryce and Dahl Winters. ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS – www.heirloomcarbon.com Max is the Head of Commercialization at Heirloom. He has spent t...

In this session of This Is CDR week we welcome Yasemin Kologlu and Aaron Zeligs, Design Director and Design Associate for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's (SOM) New York office. Yasemin and Aaron will present Urban Sequoia, a brilliant proposal to use architecture, design and planning to reinvent the urban built environment into a network for absorbing carbon. The project initially premiered at the CO...

In this episode OpenAir is excited to host Dr. Wil Burns, one of the world’s leading experts on carbon removal governance, law, and policy to teach us about the numerous legal and regulatory issues that must be addressed as we look to demonstrate, deploy, and scale new CDR pathways. Hosted by Jamie Rogers and Megha Raghavan. ABOUT THE PRESENTER Dr. Wil Burns is a Visiting Professor in the Environm...

In this session of This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome Mac Kennedy and Josh Stolaroff from Mote to present the company’s wood waste to carbon negative hydrogen CDR pathway. Mote was recently funded by investors and will be opening a 150KtCO2/yr demonstration plant in Bakersfield CA in 2024. Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan ABOUT OUR GUESTS Mac Kennedy is the CEO of Mote. He is an environm...

This week on This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome Professor Holly Jean Buck to talk about her important new book Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough, and discuss how we can make carbon removal policy and deployment just and equitable. Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan ABOUT OUR GUEST Holly Jean Buck is a geographer and environmental social scientist studying rural futures, the p...

In this installment of This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome OpenAir’s own Na’im Merchant and Chris Neidl to to survey the primary pathways by which concrete can sequester CO2 in concrete, and how direct air carbon capture (DACC) plus concrete represents a scalable CDR solution we can start deploying *today*. Hosted by Sue Dorward and Megha Raghavan ABOUT THIS WEEK'S GUESTS CHRIS NEIDL is the co-f...

In this session of This Is CDR we welcome Mike Kelland, CEO of Planetary Hydrogen to discuss the company's patented Ocean Air Capture (OAC) technology, which uses renewable electricity to produce carbon-negative green hydrogen. Hosted by Megha Raghavan and Irene Polnyi. ABOUT THIS WEEK'S GUEST Mike Kelland is CEO of Ottawa-based Planetary Hydrogen (www.planetaryhydrogen.com) , having transitioned...

In this session of This Is CDR we welcome Dante Simonetti, PhD and Gaurav Sant, PhD from SeaChange to tell us about the company's novel electrochemical CDR process that leverages the ocean's natural carbonate cycle to sequester CO2 at scale. Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan. ABOUT OUR GUESTS Dante Simonetti is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the Samueli Sc...

In this session of This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome Josh Santos CEO of Noya (www.noya.co) to tell us about his company's novel approach to distributed direct air carbon capture (DACC) that leverages existing commercial cooling towers. Hosted by Toby Bryce and Chris Neidl ABOUT OUR PRESENTER Josh Santos (@joshsandtoes) is the co-founder and CEO of Noya, a company that’s reversing climate chang...

In this special session of This Is CDR the OpenAir Advocacy team unboxes the collective’s newest and most ambitious legislative mission to date. The Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act (CDRLA) is soon to be introduced legislation in New York and other states that, as law, would establish a transparent, standards-based and equitable carbon dioxide removal state procurement obligation. Such a prog...

In this session of This Is CDR we welcome Peter Reinhardt to tell us about Charm Industrial’s industry-leading and highly permanent carbon removal process, which generates bio-oil via fast-pyrolysis and pumps it for sequestration deep underground. Peter Reinhardt is CEO and co-founder at Charm Industrial, where they are developing novel carbon removal and renewable industrial syngas technology. He...

In this episode of This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome Marty Odlin of Running Tide. Marty tells us about Running Tide's approach employing automated systems to grow and deploy kelp for permanent carbon sequestration in the deep ocean. Moderated by Toby Bryce (@wtbryce) and Megha Raghavan ABOUT OUR PRESENTER Marty Odlin is Founder and CEO of Running Tide, a Maine-based company seeking to harness,...

In this session of This Is CDR is pleased to welcome Kelly Erhart and Tom Green from Project Vesta to tell us about Coastal Carbon Capture as a CDR solution, and provide an update as to where Project Vesta are in terms of research, development, and deployment of “carbon negative sand.” Moderated by Toby Bryce (@wtbryce) and Megha Raghavan ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS Kelly Erhart is Co-Founder and Directo...

In this installment we are pleased to welcome Aaron Fitzgerald to tell us about Mars Material’s (http://realizemars.com) efforts to develop a new pathway for carbon fiber production using captured CO2 as a raw material, and discuss his experiences with New York’s carbontech ecosystem as part of Venture for ClimateTech and the C2V Initiative’s inaugural cohorts. Moderated by Toby Bryce (@wtbryce) a...