Which is terrifying: the methane threat or that someone is addressing it?
We're in the stage of scaling up a process from lab scale to deployment scale. Most of the theoretical and experimental science in this area has been done at institutions in Germany, France and Denmark and while the company is international the engineering development is in SV.
TBH there's a lot more to do than just some engineering and validation: regulation, environmental studies, social acceptance, etc -- about as much as engineering itself.
The company is named Blue Dot Change (bluedotchange.com) -- trying to restore the planet to the lovely blue dot from the photos from space. Yes all startups ultimately need a new, less nerdly name. Right now the web site doesn't say much -- basically clip art and a little text.
Since this is HN:
- The architecture is nice: a large number of small devices, which allows a lot of scaling and all the other nice operational and cost features you'd expect (but no, no need for some sort of k8s to manage them :-).
- Yes, we're hiring: experienced ME, EE, and ChemE; in a few months we'll need a couple of more deep embedded/instrumentation programmers.
- And we are continuing to fundraise, by pre-selling carbon credits. Since we are making relatively small devices, we don't need one of those crazy $100MM rounds you'd need to develop a new kind of oil refinery or nuke. If we do decide we need that for some crazy phase of scaling we can to that then.
