direct air capture
5 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 30, 2022 by Jan Wurzbacher · across every show →
Everything said about direct air capture, oldest first
Jun 30, 2022 bullish
Wurzbacher: Direct air capture is 1,000x more area-efficient than trees
“If you build machines like we are doing, you can do it on much, much less area. So you are about a thousand times more area efficient. So at the same area where you can take one ton out of the air with trees, you could take a thousand tons out of the air with …”
Jun 30, 2022 bullish
Jun 30, 2022 negative
Wurzbacher: Selling captured CO₂ to beverage makers has zero climate benefit
“Like, in terms of climate effects, that market is totally irrelevant. Like, is that a market? Could you grow a sustainable business on that? Yes, sure. So you, we could have decided just to become a small, medium-sized company developing direct air capture pla…”
Feb 8, 2024 bullish
Feb 8, 2024 bearish
Synthetic direct air capture materials are too expensive to scale globally
“So the traditional way folks have gone about it was basically to build a novel material artificially. But the problem was not whether you could capture the CO two. The problem was the cost of making that material. And because the supply chains don't exist, you…”