Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) gets more interesting by the day, and 2023 has been a banner of a year. Why so much money and attention? Why so much hate and ridicule? How to make sense of this? Let’s unpack: The action, love, hate, hard topics, ambivalence, leadership, future. /1

NEW paper: Deep emissions cuts the priority. Carbon removal is a longer term solution. But we need to get moving on CDR now 🧵   The next 10 years is the crucial “Formative Phase” for novel carbon dioxide removal (nCDR).  authors.elsevier.com/a/1i5aa_vpkkFB…

🎧🎙️NEW EPISODE! hubs.li/Q02cKR5l0 This week, we interview authors of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s #Roads2Removal report to discuss how much CO2 is possible to remove in the US, how we do it, and at what cost!

Here is a new, free dataset on the GHG emissions and profits of the world’s biggest companies. We manually collected emission data for the world's top 250 companies and used profit and revenue data from the Forbes 2000 list. The set contains 2020-2022 data. We used this for the

Looking to advance your career in #machining? The annual job posting for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s esteemed machinist apprenticeship is now live and will be accepting applications for approximately one month. Learn more about the California-certified program: livermorelab.info/3TAKcX4

Utterly mandatory cultural viewing: youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM

Looking to advance your career in #machining? The annual job posting for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s esteemed machinist apprenticeship is now live and will be accepting applications for approximately one month. Learn more about the California-certified program: livermorelab.info/3TAKcX4

#ICYMI Roads to Removal report is a nat'l collaborative effort by 60+ scientists & 13 institutions that examines regionally specific opportunities to address climate change, CO2 removal & more: Report/Interactive map ➡️ bit.ly/3TzrJKw Video ➡️ bit.ly/3UboF7t

1/We Fervo Energy are excited to announce our new geothermal drilling results. We have achieved a 70% YoY reduction in drilling times, dramatically outpacing predictions, and are poised to unleash a new wave of geothermal decades ahead of schedule. THREAD. fervoenergy.com/fervo-energy-d…

Feel like you want to make a real difference in which projects are selected for funding, based on the rigor of their community benefit plans? Then apply here to be a reviewer 👇

Join Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at #NSBE50 on March 20-24, in Atlanta, Georgia! NSBE is one of the largest student-governed organizations and supports the aspirations of collegiate and pre-collegiate students and technical professionals in engineering and technology: livermorelab.info/3TiYERK

What do you get when you analyze data from the largest methane measurement endeavor in the history of the oil and gas industry? Find out in my new paper in nature! rdcu.be/dA6Ja [1/N]

climate advocates are sharing a story about this plant's "failure to capture 90% of emissions" what's missing? 1) EPA permits are just for~1/4 of its emissions 2) emissions high b/c there's a 335MW coal plant on site; the current CO2 capture is on the ethanol fermentation part

Paper day! We present the NGC4490 system as yet another satellite galaxy plane in strong tension with expectations from ΛCDM cosmological simulations. With Oliver Müller, Ph.D., Nick Heesters & my COSMICOR team at AIP (Salvatore, Mariana & Jamie). arxiv.org/abs/2405.06016 1/n

Sine and cosine are so 1804. By using a POD to identify an orthogonal basis tailored to your physics problem, you can solve PDEs faster. Check out our latest article in CMAME! authors.elsevier.com/c/1j5f2AQEJ58AU

Can't tell you how many times I've heard the myth "CCS doesn't work" What they really mean is CCS is hard, in part due to: Hard-tech development cycles Long-term policy support Success determination A recent Fossil Energy | DOE paper debunks that myth and explains the challenges🧵

to people worried about looking like boring nerds: 1. you are boring nerd, hence your profession 2. you will look like a boring nerd in anything bc that's you 3. if you are cool, then you will still look cool in these clothes. see Glenn O'Brien, Duncan Hannah, Basquiat, etc.

A long thread on the 465 million year global temperature study and what it means (and doesn’t mean). This was good work by some great authors, so naturally you’ll see bad summaries on Twitter science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… (WaPo article: washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…)

The @energy 2024 carbon management strategy dropped last Friday, and it's very good History of carbon management, current CCS facilities, priority use cases, policy implementation, cluster strategy and more Let's look at some of the hits👇👇 energy.gov/sites/default/…

Article now out, led by Wolfram Buss: "Applying minerals to soil to draw down atmospheric carbon dioxide through synergistic organic and inorganic pathways." We discuss synergies btw. enhanced weathering, biochar, and secondary minerals to increase SOC. nature.com/articles/s4324…