This chapter explores the concept of enhanced rock weathering, which speeds up the natural process of rocks removing carbon from the atmosphere. It discusses how rocks can be modified to increase their surface area for more effective carbon removal, especially in applications like agriculture and forestry. The conversation also touches on the scalability of this technology and its potential to remove millions of tons of carbon annually by 2030.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ana Pavlovic Hans to talk about using rocks to cut carbon (3:00), coming up with the best “recipe” (8:00), the measurement breakthrough (11:00), bringing the cost down (20:00), making rock weathering “sexy’ (25:45), being raised in mining country in America and Australia (27:00), the partnership with Stripe (37:40), raising $12 million (41:30), and critter stories from Australia (42:40).
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