Cody Finke
Co-Founder and CEO, Brimstone. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Cody Finke is the co-founder and CEO of Brimstone, a climate tech startup producing carbon-negative ordinary Portland cement from silicate rocks. He holds a Ph.D. from Caltech and previously served as a Cyclotron Road Fellow.
1shows
1appearances
17statements
10resolved
9supported
0contradicted
90%fully supported
Everything Cody Finke said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Finke: Calcium silicate cement will be lower cost at scale
“In the modern economy, we think that will be lower cost at scale.”
Finke: Decarbonized cement will not achieve quick global adoption unless it is Portland cement
“We don't think global adoption will happen if it's not Portland cement. Or at least it won't happen quickly.”
Finke: Brimstone's process can be carbon-negative even using dirty fuels
“The beauty of our process is that actually could be substantially lower carbon or even carbon negative under a wide range of energy sources, including the use of those dirtier fuels.”
Finke: Calcium silicate eliminates 60% of cement emissions immediately
“The calcium silicate rock, A, does not contain any CO two. So we eliminate 60% of the emissions just by using a different rock.”
Finke: Brimstone process yields magnesium waste that passively sequesters CO2
“It produces a magnesium-based waste product, and that magnesium-based waste product will passively sequester CO₂. Just sitting on the ground, it will react with CO₂ in the air to permanently sequester CO₂.”
Finke: Do-good technologies require an economic case to achieve scale
“Deploying these sort of do good technologies is not trivial because people don't just buy them and install them out of the goodness of their heart, or at least not enough. There needs to be a compelling economic case.”
Finke: Structural failures and delays cost 10 to 100 times more than cement
“Because both structural failures and construction delays are way more expensive than the cement. They're like 10 to a hundred times more expensive.”
Finke: Slowing coal power and steel growth is driving up cement prices
“The current production of cement actually relies on the production of electricity and steel from coal. And both of those industries' growth have slowed. And That is leading to a domino effect where the price of cement has been rising.”
Finke: Brimstone cement certified as chemically identical Ordinary Portland Cement
“So just this last July, we got a third party certification that we, the cement that we made passed the existing standard for ordinary Portland cement showing that it's chemically and physically identical to the conventionally produced product.”
Finke: Brimstone holds patents on producing Portland cement from silicate rock
“So the process is patented and the utilization of this rock to produce Portland cement is also patented. So another company would need to license or joint venture with us in order to make cement via this process.”
Finke: Global cement plants will probably grow to 5,000 by 2100
“So let's say a cement plant, a modern cement plant costs around a billion dollars, and there are 3000 of them today, and there probably will be 5000 by the end of the century, because we will need to develop the rapidly developing world, as well as transition …”
Finke: Hydrogen is made from fossil fuels because it is cheapest
“We don't make hydrogen by splitting water today. We make hydrogen a different way from a fossil fuel, actually. And we do that because it's the lowest cost way to make hydrogen.”
Finke: Cement had the lowest decarbonization funding per ton of emissions
“One metric that was really interesting to me was the dollars invested in decarbonizing the product per ton of greenhouse gas emissions. And I couldn't really find anything lower than cement.”
Finke: Cement accounts for about 90% of concrete's carbon emissions
“And just to clarify the cement and concrete, concrete is the building material, and cement is the binder, the glue. And about 90% of the emissions come from cement.”
Finke: Fuel and energy account for 40% of cement emissions
“The first is you need to burn a lot of fuel because you need to use a lot of energy to make cement, and that's about 40% of the emissions in cement production.”
Finke: Most cement emissions stem from chemical breakdown of limestone
“And the majority of the CO two emissions from cement come from that chemistry for releasing the CO two from the rock.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Cody's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Co-Founder and CEO, Brimstone | 1 | 17 | 90% 9/10 | full record on How I Built This → |