Q numbers are incredible, and we need to see the industry scale by many orders of magnitude. Why are we focused so heavily on engineered carbon removal right now, even at this very early commercial scale? I mean, there's, there's a lot of fear about the durability of natural, of nature-based solutions. Why are people pouring money into this space, and what is the, like, where, where is the technology readiness?
A The reason why the industry has taken so much focus on engineered solutions is because engineered solutions are able to remove carbon dioxide at the speed and scale that's required to reach our net zero targets. Natural carbon removal solutions are a very important piece of the puzzle, and we need those to continue working But if we're talking about the square footage it requires to, you know, plant trees and have that carbon dioxide removed over time versus the square footage it requires, or a DAC unit might require to remove carbon dioxide in a given time, the DAC unit is going to require less square footage, less energy, and is going to be able to remove more CO₂ quickly. And that's what we're really focused on. The more CO two and quickly part. If we look at the types of technologies for director capture and how ready they are for deployment today, there are a couple different sort of mediums. So before I kind of cover what's getting popular today, I'll, I'll talk about how director capture kind of works. So the DAC process takes in air, um, passively, which reacts to a contactor. A contactor is just a big word for a material or a medium that carbon dioxide sticks to. The carbon dioxide is then stripped away from the medium, typically through a process called regeneration, where heat is used and quite a bit of energy, to then strip out the CO₂, to then, ah, store it or use …
AI assessment note: “The reason why the industry has taken so much focus on engineered solutions is because”