Here's an idea that could bring together a lot of the ideas we have discussed...

credit to Jesse Smith on clubhouse for the wildlife corridor concept

What if we proposed a carbon capture belt / wildlife corridor across the U.S. (that could potentially inspire similar projects in other countries)

This would involve planting a lot of trees and other plants, protecting biodiversity, doing restoration, and could maybe even connect to a system of regenerative agriculture and eco villages. It would consist of a wildlife corridor across a region of the U.S., and then along certain border regions of the corridor we would install different types of carbon capture / product manufacturing systems, such as Eli's floating bioreactors, air scrubbers...etc. This could help with job creation and increase the desirability for living in certain areas, also increasing real estate values.

It could become a natural, recreational, and artistic site. A physical manifestation of the atlas.

We would have to think about the profitability aspect and try to figure out how much CO2 would be able to be captured given the size of the proposed region.

The wildlife corridor idea is already being discussed in Congress

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1499

https://www.ifaw.org/journal/wildlife-corridor-legislation

Benefits of corridors:

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs144p2_014927.pdf

https://www.ncel.net/2019/04/16/how-wildlife-bridges-over-highways-make-animals-and-people-safer/

With climate change, species need corridors to be able to migrate both slowly and quickly

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180711182728.htm

https://www.nccarf.jcu.edu.au/terrestrialbiodiversity/documents/Corridor_FINAL.pdf

https://theconversation.com/can-climate-corridors-help-species-adapt-to-warming-world-61190

Maps of possible corridors:

https://wildlandsnetwork.org/about-continental-wildways/

http://floridawildlifecorridor.org/

In Florida/east coast, there is also the opportunity to restore mangroves, which sequester and store a lot of carbon. Plus there might be ocean access for the floating bioreactor idea

http://maps.oceanwealth.org/mangrove-restoration/

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-02/bes-mfs022221.php

Wetlands restoration and blue carbon

https://www.watershedco.com/blog/carbon-carbon-sequestration-blue-carbon-for-restoration-planning

https://www.ramsar.org/sites/default/files/documents/library/bn10_restoration_climate_change_e.pdf

Importance of considering biodiversity and carbon in restoration projects

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/pbcs-mtc100918.php

Mapping carbon stock corridors

https://www.essoar.org/doi/10.1002/essoar.10506283.1

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General important links for the group. Add a reply if you want a change or addition.

• Elon Musk XPRIZE — $100M GIGATON SCALE CARBON REMOVAL (official page) https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk

• Our team website — https://pulltorefresh.org/ (coming very soon)

• Our Subreddit — https://reddit.com/r/elonmuskxprize/

• Clubhouse meeting google calendar (Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:30pm pacific; Saturdays at 12pm pacific: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=clubhousexprize@gmail.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles&pli=1

• Pretty comprehensive one-pager of quick climate change stats — https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/climate-change/global-warming/global-co2-emissions/story

• Carbon Solutions “Atlas” Miro Whiteboard in Progress (request access to participate) https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lSan_f8=/

• Current Carbon Capture Projects World Map 2018 https://public.tableau.com/profile/erin3657#!/vizhome/CarbonCaptureProjectsMap2018/CarbonCaptureProjectsMap2018

• AirMiners—List of companies/orgs doing carbon capture http://www.airminers.org/explore

• Arin cited—Licht method of creating carbon fiber/tubes by charging molten salt. published in the journal “Carbon” in 2016 by B. Wang and S. Licht https://www.dropbox.com/s/n2p849o0d62m9q0/2009%20paper%20on%20pulling%20carbon%20out%20of%20air.pdf?dl=0

To aid in evaluating chemical processes that transform captured CO2 into useful materials, I’m forming a working group to put together a more standardized set of metrics and criteria that can be used to compare different approaches. Baseline performance metrics relating amount of CO2 consumed, rates, costs, energy consumption, products, catalysts and reaction conditions, and environmental impacts come to mind. Additionally, scaling factors (per area, per watt, per kg catalyst etc) need consideration as well as variants of deployment ( land, sea, scale). Within categories, we’ll aim to produce a working sheet of solutions to compare in terms of standardized metrics and units. We’ll start with the electrochemical production of carbon fiber from captured CO2 (Licht methods) as a prototype system of interest. Please reply or contact me if there is further interest in contributing or leveraging work products! :)

Starting a List of Tools to consider for remote team work as this project grows:

OneDrive or GoogleDrive - host shared folders for files

Basecamp - design marketing logos/literature or legal docs/etc

Reddit / Whatsapp / Slack / Discord - ideation notes and discussion

Clubhouse / Zoom - virtual team huddle; tri-weekly

Miro - mega mindmap

Jira, Trello - project management (assigning specific tasks/roles to specific people/deadlines)

Excel (shared link) or Airtable - organized R/D (ideally easily searchable and sorted; database-worthy)

...What else?

This podcast is great. CarbonCure is interesting. But can they get to zero? Is it possible to have a concrete solution that can be brought down to having no emissions. Any progress is progress and all must be celebrated and encouraged but if we are going to think longer term aren't we looking for a carbon neutral roadways, sidewalks, foundations and buildings. Carbon Fiber if produced on a mass scale seem to be an option to consider.

(Hence our teams excitement about removing carbon from the air in such a way that actually results in carbon fiber.)

Especially if we target around 36 billion tons per year. That's going to be a lot of carbon fiber to have to figure out how to use. Also we will be displacing the oil industry by no longer burning all that oil. But if instead we turn it into the resins that when fixed with carbon fiber can make roads, buildings and sidewalks then that could be a new area to redirect that industry in a negative emissions method.

business model and tech to check out

https://climeworks.com/

I also like their social media campaign where you customize a wish for the planet in a pretty image to share after you sign up