Patel: Scaling climate tech requires process engineering over pure science

“However, the capabilities and the requirements to move to the next levels of scaling and to do it as quickly as possible, they move very quickly from technical insight and technical capability, particularly scientific insight and scientific capability, into things like You know, broad-based process engineering and process development. You know, capital, productivity, and construction of infrastructure. These are the things that we need to do, right? Whether it's building DAC facilities, or whether it's, you know, scaling agricultural, you know new agricultural models. Pretty much all of them require some interaction with the physical world. And that, the preparedness for what it takes to scale beyond the Proof and scaling of a process or a individual, you know, chemical, physical, or biological activity. That's a great area of, I think, uncertainty and unpreparedness.”

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