Carbon
topic on 9 shows · 9 statements across 7 episodes · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2016
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Cohen: Buildings account for 40% of global carbon emissions
“Well, design and buildings of 40% of all carbon created in the world.”
Miller: Carbon Will Rival Oil and Gas in Commodity Scope and Scale
“Carbon will be a commodity that rivals oil and gas in scope and scale, and you need to be ready for that.”
Miller: The IRA made carbon valuable by putting a price on it
“Ironically, by virtue of putting a price on carbon, you've actually made carbon valuable under the IRA.”
Collins: Seaweed sequesters carbon, deacidifies ocean water, and protects coastlines
“Seaweed has this beautiful ability to draw down carbon. Yes. To deacidify water columns. To act as literal barrier for coastal storms.”
Pierpoint: Carbon-to-value faces structural volume and pricing trade-offs
“And this has just always been a really tough space because the places where you have a lot of volume, like, you know, making cement you have really low commodity prices. So it's hard to get a good price for the carbon that you're capturing. And in places where…”
Berdichevsky: Silicon anodes hold 24x more lithium per atom than carbon
“So there, the lit, ah, four atoms of lithium actually bond with a single atom of silicon. So you remember with carbon, it's six to one. Here it's one to four. So it's 24 X atomically better.”
Brian Halligan predicts a NASDAQ-scale financial exchange will emerge for carbon
“Like there's going to be a whole stock market. You think there's a stock market, there's a commodities market, there's NASDAQ, there's the New York Stock Exchange. That's going to happen for carbon and think of all of the businesses that happened around that m…”
Saez-Gil: One hectare of full-grown forest contains about 200 tons of carbon
“One hectare of land of full-grown forest contains about 200 tons.”
Saez-Gil: A trillion trees could draw down 200 gigatons of carbon
“There is about one billion hectares in the planet that are available for forest restoration without competing with agriculture, In that land, you can plant about a trillion trees, and that trillion trees has the potential to draw down about 200 gigatons of car…”