Captura

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New drop: In the latest episode of Everybody in the Pool, host Molly Wood explores an intriguing method of carbon capture and removal with Steve Oldham, CEO of Captura. Steve shares insights on the critical role these technologies play in achieving our climate goals. He breaks down the difference between carbon capture—aimed at turning off the "taps" of CO2 emissions—and carbon removal, which actively extracts CO2 from the atmosphere. 🌍 Captura is at the forefront of this innovation, leveraging the ocean's natural ability to capture CO2 through a process called electrodialysis. Captura says its method is designed to be environmentally friendly, ensuring the health of our oceans remains intact. 🌊✨ Tune in to learn how we can work together for a sustainable future!  https://lnkd.in/gzPGeUs6 #CarbonCapture #ClimateAction #Sustainability #Podcast #Innovation #OceanHealth

I enjoyed this story by Rachel Millard about the UK government's pledging just shy of £22bn for the nation's first carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. This technology will be critical in helping hard-to-decarbonize industries achieve net zero.   I hope this announcement signals openness to an even broader portfolio approach that includes carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies. According to the IPCC, stabilizing earth’s climate also requires removing CO2 that's accumulated in the air and oceans from decades of emissions. CDR is needed both to compensate for residual emissions and to achieve net-negative emissions after 2050.   Our portfolio company Captura is piloting direct ocean capture (DOC) technology, a form of CDR. Think of DOC as direct air capture’s (DAC) younger but cooler sibling: It's less mature but has promise to remove CO2 at lower cost. At scale, Captura’s system potentially will be able to capture millions of tons of CO2 per year and sit either along the coast or out at sea, close to offshore sequestration sites. This will avoid the cost and complexity of capturing emissions at source and of onshore transportation. Captura’s technology is also very flexible and can run when renewable generation is available, helping reduce congestion costs on grids. No wonder the company's a finalist for the XPRIZE. I visited Captura's California HQ recently, and I hope the UK government is thinking about the role the startup's technology could play in carbon removal. After all, two of the companies involved in developing the first carbon storage sites the new program will support -- Eni and Equinor -- also are investors in Captura. https://lnkd.in/erTEqnbd

Captura's CEO, Steve Oldham, recently had the honor to present at Smart Energy Week in Japan! In his talk, Steve highlighted the immense potential of our oceans to help us tackle the urgent challenge of removing excess CO2 from the atmosphere. 🌍 Achieving net zero requires solutions that can achieve massive scale and affordable cost, without impacting our fragile eco-systems. Steve shared insights on how Captura’s innovative #DirectOceanCapture technology leverages the natural abilities of the ocean to do just that. A special thank you to our investor, Japan Airlines Innovation Fund and Shiro Matsuzaki, for their support in advancing scalable marine carbon removal solutions in partnership with us. ✈️ #carbonremoval #cleantech #netzero #SmartEnergyWeek #JAL

At last week’s Carbon Removal Capital Summit, organized by XPRIZE and Santander, I got to speak with 8 incredible carbon removal founders for Climate on the Edge https://lnkd.in/gqmzi3rw Steve Oldham, Co-founder and CEO of Captura and an (exited!) OG in carbon removal shared his views on carbon removal as humanity’s climate Plan B and… on what a potential Plan C could be   Omar Abou-Sayed, Co-founder and Chairman of Vaulted Deep talked about his compay’s exciting mission of burying toxic sludge – and carbon – in the ultimate externalities fix Martin Freimüller, Co-founder and CEO of Octavia Carbon talked about geographic comparative advantage for direct air capture, and why renewable energy credits could be undermining DAC’s reputation as a carbon removal pathway Jason Aramburu, Co-founder and CEO of Applied Carbon on revenue resilience within carbon removal, and how broader trends around decentralization are changing the game for the world’s biggest current CDR pathway, biochar Axel Reinaud, Co-founder and CEO of NetZero on why carbon removal prices need to go up, not down, to drive scale across the industry Daniel Hooft, Founder and CEO of Kelp Blue on lessons learned from two decades in oil and gas and the moral imperative behind carbon removal Tom G., Co-founder and CEO of Vesta, PBC talked about double-solving for emissions removal and climate adaptation for coastal erosion and sea level rise Jim Mann, Founder and CEO of UNDO on the role of software in the complex work of carbon removal, and whether or not a carbon removal company could ever “AWS” their tech stack If you’re interested in the true frontier of carbon removal, check out all our XPRIZE Summit interviews and subscribe for future episodes https://lnkd.in/gMg2b6je