Purwar: Water pollution modeling costs more than air quality modeling
Abhilasha Purwar · Electric Companies Pay Them $250k To Track Forest Fires, $1.2m raised at $7m Valuation · Nov 6, 2021 · at 4:09
Abhilasha Purwar, CEO of climate intelligence platform Blue Sky HQ, details the underlying technical and pricing disparities between environmental data categories.
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“For instance, if I'm doing like water pollution monitoring, it's very complex monitoring. So it's more expensive. Air quality is cheaper because it's like cheaper modeling the science. Or the engineering that's needed behind both of these models is like different.”
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