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.
> “ 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:
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.