CEO @ Heirloom @heirloomcarbon Low cost Direct Air Capture (DAC) via carbon mineralization to reverse climate change Prev cofounder @TempoAutomation
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A couple comments on this very good thread. First, note what is waiting to be built - it’s all clean. Markets aren’t trying to build dirty power because the economics don’t pencil. Our generation mix is getting a lot cleaner - not fast enough, but the forward build is clean.
Good news: cost is no longer the key barrier to deploying clean energy.
Bad news: interconnection queues have taken the place as perhaps the biggest barrier for clean energy.
So, interconnection queues—what are they, why are they broken, and how do we fix them? A thread:
ALT Interconnection Queue chart via LBNL. Existing capacity in 2022 equaled 1254 GW, whereas the 2022 queue equaled 2040 GW, mostly from clean energy.
Shashank Samala retweeted
I absolutely love these diagrams. This one from @cleanaircatf
CO2 storage is really deep underground and really safe.
Shashank Samala retweeted
The founder of @Breakthrough
@BillGates breaks down our progress in the energy transition.
And there's a whole section on carbon management!
breakthroughenergy.org/news/…
Yesterday was huge. We officially opened the country's first commercial Direct Air Capture facility and it was exciting to share the moment with Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and California Lt Governor Eleni Kounalakis.
This facility is only possible because of a group of people that's committed themselves to moving at the urgent speed required to stop climate change. What you don't see in these photos are the long days Heirloomers spent working in 100+ degree heat, the hours spent planning how to build something that had never been built before, and the hope of a generation to solve climate change, the greatest challenge of our time.
This facility will capture up to 1,000 tons of CO2 each year. We *know* we have a long way to go – but you’re looking at a blueprint for what billion-ton scale removal can look like.
The list of thank-yous we owe is long and includes the City and community of Tracy, leaders who are championing carbon removal (from the Oval Office to elementary school classrooms), our clean power provider, PG&E, the union workforce that constructed this facility, and many others.
I really encourage everyone to have a read of how we built this facility and all of the partnerships that made it possible: heirloomcarbon.com/news/heir…
Shashank Samala retweeted
A massive DAC deal between @heirloomcarbon @Microsoft : 315,000 tons, at current market prices north of $200M
Congrats to @ShashankSamala @NoahMcQueen13 @maxrscholten and the rest of the team.
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I’m so so thrilled to share that Microsoft has made an advanced purchase of 315,000 metric tons of Heirloom’s carbon removals. This is a validation of the confidence they’ve held in our ability to deploy our low-cost DAC solution at scale
wsj.com/us-news/climate-envi…
We’re deeply grateful to the leadership at Microsoft for their partnership and world-leading ambition to become a carbon negative company by 2030 and remove all of the CO2 the company has ever emitted by 2050.
Heirloom's mission is to help *reverse* climate change. Today marks a big milestone in that journey. Our Project Cypress has won upto $600M in DAC hub funding from the Department of Energy to build a Megaton facility. So so proud of the @heirloomcarbon team for getting us here.
Proud to announce the megaton milestone that our Louisiana DAC Hub, Project Cypress, has received Notification of Selection from @POTUS's @ENERGY! With our partners @Battelle and @Climeworks, we’ll be building a facility that removes (at least) 1 million tons of CO2 per year.
With the prospect of $600m in funding, we're on the road to catalyze DAC technology, a new class of jobs, and carbon removal at large, all while investing in the communities that we’ll call home in Louisiana.
We’re also excited to announce 3 other DAC Hubs we’re joining in the Pacific Northwest, Illinois, and Florida, where we'll hone our technology across different climatic conditions in collaboration with a wide array of experts, technologists, and storage partners.
Read the full announcement: energy.gov/articles/biden-ha…
This is pretty massive for carbon removal!
Exclusive from @robinsonmeyer: In a global first, the U.S. government is paying for carbon removal
heatmap.news/economy/carbon-…
Congrats to @Battelle, @Climeworks and @heirloomcarbon on this important #DAC hub application.
If this application is selected, GCS would permanently store the captured carbon underground at our southwestern Louisiana site.
We are proud to support this work on #carbonremoval.
Frontier is accelerating scaling up CDR solutions and their team is absolute *world-class*. They're now hiring a Diligence lead and Program manager - check them out:
We're hiring at Frontier! Please send phenomenal people our way.
Diligence Lead: stripe.com/jobs/listing/dili…
Program Manager: stripe.com/jobs/listing/prog…
For CO2 removal to succeed and scale, we need a thriving industry full of diverse solutions all working to *raise* the bar. The Carbon Removal Alliance will help grow this industry, and we at @heirloomcarbon are excited to help as a founding board member
I’m heading up the Carbon Removal Alliance, a new group advocating for *permanent* carbon removal.
Our focus:
🏗️ Designing tech-inclusive carbon removal policy
📈 Spotlighting the economic impact of CDR
🆘 Surfacing pain points of CDR entrepreneurs
carbonremovalalliance.org
Was excited to share Heirloom's journey with FastCompany: fastcompany.com/90845600/thi…
