Eric Matzner
@EricCO2Removal
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Using plants to mine nickel, while removing carbon through enhanced rock weathering at @MetalplantCDR | Fmr. Founded Project Vesta, @Nootroo
San Francisco
Joined September 2011
Excited to announce the launch of Metalplant, a company that produces nickel by mining the soil with plants, while removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through enhanced rock weathering (ERW). Metalplant was formed to solve the problem of metals released during the ERW of
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RT @ECOWARRIORSS: When we loose the Arctic we loose the planet. Arctic winter reaches melting point: Scientists witness dramatic thaw in Sv….
phys.org
A new commentary published in Nature Communications by Dr. James Bradley, Reader in Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London, and his team reveals a dramatic and concerning shift in...
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RT @dwallacewells: “Vegetable prices in California and Arizona jumped 80% on year in November, 2022 after extreme drought, while Ethiopian….
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Staple foods—including potatoes, rice, onions, lettuce and fruit—are being hit by price shocks, according to a study led by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
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RT @tylerhnorris: On the Trump admin requiring Secretary-level approval of renewable project permits, via @JasonGrumet on @politico energy….
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And with solar geoengineering (SAI etc), there really no co-benefits, whereas technologies like biochar and ERW help increase crop yields, water retention (e.g. increased drought tolerance), nutrient cycling etc. And if you stop managing biochar or ERW, the process continues on.
🚨Solar Geoengineering (#SRM) may seem cheap (~$18B/yr) to cool the planet, but when you factor in societal risks, political instability & sudden climate rebounds, the true cost may far exceed technical estimates from both moral & practical standpoints, says a new study. 🧵1/11
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RT @geoengineering1: 6/ The study estimates that unintended SRM harms could affect up to 7% of the global population, with costs ranging fr….
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CC numbers from @RnaudBertrand .
Fascinatingly, part of the plan, as per China's “Eastern Data, Western Computing” initiative, might be AI 👇 It's not only that the dam project will generate immense amounts of electricity that can be used for computing, but also the fact that it's.
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"In short, China will transform industrial capacity into electricity, electricity into computational power, and computational power into ever higher levels of advanced productivity.". New dam in China will be 300 billion kilowatt-hours, can power ~20% of the USA.
One of the most powerful ways to absorb the vast torrents of electricity Tibet will soon unleash—surpassing the output of three Three Gorges Dams—is to deploy colossal AI compute clusters right at the source. Tibet’s naturally low temperatures provide ideal, energy-saving.
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how long will we even have the satellites to track this?.
Well this isn’t good. Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies (SSTAs) for the date are now up to + 11.1 degrees C (+ 20 degrees F) in a rapidly intensifying Marine Heat Wave (MHW) in the Kara Sea off the west coast of Yamal, Siberia, where some of the largest stores of frozen methane
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they canceled the future.
I don’t think people realize how much damage is being done to American science. Basically all upcoming astrophysics missions are being cancelled. This is happening in every field.
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And guess what, the COP process requires 100% agreement by all parties. How can we ever expect Saudi Arabia, Russia, UAE, etc agree to phase out fossil fuels which keep them in power? Instead we let them lead it, it's a joke. Serious countries must reform COP or form alternative.
Small handful of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies, “carbon majors” hold our future in their hands, responsible for 52% global emissions in 2023.
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RT @dwallacewells: “In 2008 the United States produced nearly half of the world’s polysilicon, a crucial material for solar panels. Today,….
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Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.
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The equation has shifted and the precautionary principle now says we have to act to even try to keep the climate where it is now. Inaction is its own form of action to destroy the planet.
"The idea that we might attempt large-scale experiments to cool the planet is horrifying to some, but it looks increasingly likely that we will have to do so this century." #SolarGeoengineering.
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coolest but scariest battery swap i've ever seen.
The era of massive factories with thousands of workers is ending. Factories will remain, and will grow larger, but people will work there mostly as supervisors. Instead of 10,000+ workers on few shifts, each huge factory will need only a handful of people.
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It would be supremely sad if Mauna Loa in Hawaii closes as it holds one of the best records of ongoing CO2 levels in its fairly isolated high altitude observatory.
Nothing to see here but rising CO2 levels:
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It should be illegal to not do directed ocean fertilization along known whale corridors. Releasing iron+other elements like glaciers do, will net help the ecosystem. The status quo of mass die-offs is way worse than any downsides. Precautionary principle = yes, help the whales.
Most of the stranded whales showed signs of malnutrition, inc depleted blubber oil, missing fat reserves & empty digestive tracts. similar to conditions that precipitated the Unusual Mortality Event monitored by NOAA Fisheries from 2018 to 2023.
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RT @TomSteyer: Your utility bill is rising because we stopped building. Utilities have already requested $29 billion in rate increases for….
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China had a deadline for solar projects to get on the grid that just ended, but it pushed the thumb down on the scale of their installed solar. As Jesse has pointed out, by 2030 the yearly solar+battery production of China will exceed the total US power grid. We are in trouble.
Are you paying attention yet?. 113 TWh in June. Chinese solar generation will soon eclipse the biggest source of generation in the U.S. — natural gas. (167 TWh in June). We cannot build gas turbines quickly enough to keep up. We have to get serious about solar. Nothing else
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Don't over look the potential of surface albedo modification (reflecting light back from the ground) while everyone looks to the sky and SAI.
Join us for an engaging discussion with Dr. Atousa Pirvaram, researcher in mechanical engineering, on "The Global Cooling Potential of Radiative Surfaces". Don't miss this MEERtalk on Sunday, Aug 3rd. Register Here: #RadiativeCooling #ClimateInnovation
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Seems non-climate people finally catching on to the clean, cheap, high-growth energy of renewables, being what powers the AI race. Idiots need to stop being anti-solar, wind, etc, as it is anti-American, anti-21st century US hegemony etc. Drill baby drill = lose the battle for AI.
DeepSeek was not a Sputnik moment in AI. This graph is the Sputnik moment in AI
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This is why solar + batteries will win.
⚡️+🔋 Solar and batteries deploy faster than any other source of power in America. Gas and nuclear are simply too far off to meet to rising energy demand.
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