Sublime Systems
company on 2 shows · 12 statements across 4 episodes · said 96 times in 7 episodes since 2022
the Green Blueprint 53 
Catalyst 43
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Chiang: Producing acids and bases acts as chemical energy storage
“So, this idea of using low-cost electricity in an electrolyzer to produce acid and base allows you to produce acid and base for chemical reactions that then follow. And those chemical reactions can be done on a volume basis, and in fact, you can decouple in te…”
Sublime's pilot cement premium had negligible impact on the project budget
“The quantities that we're talking about here were small enough such that whatever the premium was for, you know, the product at the time that we used it. And of course, it's important to point out that the moment in time or the moment in the sublime trajectory…”
WS Development installed Sublime's low-carbon cement at One Boston Wharf's entrance
“And so we made a decision to put Sublime right at the front door of the building. So that everybody who walks into and out of one Boston Wharf Road through the beautiful public space that exists at the ground floor of that building will be stepping on sublime …”
Sublime's low-carbon cement handled identically to conventional ready-mix concrete
“The good news is the Sublime product worked and handled just like normal ready-mixed concrete did except they had a lot of people standing around watching and taking videos and documenting and smiling and, you know, really enjoying watching this section of gro…”
Shayle Kann: Sublime Systems is building a plant with Holcim and CRH
“So Sublime Systems, where I'm an investor, is so far, I think, pulling off this really complex value chain integration, as well as anybody, but They're building a large commercial demonstration plant in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and they've announced a bunch of …”
Sublime Systems will sell cement environmental attributes to Microsoft
“So we, you know, work with Microsoft. That's one of you know, the announcements that Sublime made recently is an MOU signed with Microsoft and to buy the environmental attributes of some of our cement.”
Ellis: Sublime Systems views post-combustion carbon capture as its primary competitor
“What Sublime is doing is technology-enabled carbon avoidance. Our competitor is post-combustion carbon capture.”
Ellis: Section 45Q provides $80/ton for point-source capture that Sublime cannot claim
“There is a 45 Q tax credit for, you know, it's like 80 dollars a ton for removing CO₂ from a flu stack, and we don't have that.”
Ellis: Sublime Systems received $87M DOE OSED demonstration grant
“You know, we've got this grant from OSED. It's eighty-seven million dollars for our industrial demonstration program.”
Ellis: Sublime's process yields pure CO2 for under $10 a ton
“This means that we can use calcium carbonate, in which case, when the calcium is extracted, we're left with pure, cold, compressed CO₂, so inherently captured CO₂ that's ready to go into a pipeline or to be used in food grade applications, a very low cost of c…”
Ellis: Sublime achieves standard strength without high-temperature kiln chemistry
“So, you know, we don't use a thermal process in the kiln. So, you know, we don't have 1500 degrees Celsius, and therefore we don't make that tricalcium silicate phase that's only stable at that temperature. But we still make, in the end, that calcium silicate …”