@rutgerbregman.com recently identified a type of cultural idealism based on lack of impact. He said there is a group of young people who believe the highest good for their lives is to not do anything bad, to leave no trace of their existence—no pollution, no carbon footprint, no waste.

Most founders know it is hard to keep a company from going under. Fewer realize the mirror truth: once your product really works, it is also hard to control how big your company becomes.

Ähnlich wie in @rv-enigma.bsky.social's Kurven zeichnet sich bei der @dgina.bsky.social DGINA Notaufnahme Ampel vorerst auch kein weiteres exponentielles Absinken des COVID-Infektionsgeschehen ab. Da zerren wohl noch unterschiedlich gerichtete Kräfte am R-Wert.

Last week, we explained why we moved most of our enhanced weathering experiments into a greenhouse. One of the driving aspects is to speed up the weathering, compared to outdoor experiments, so we can learn faster how EW works. But how do we know HOW MUCH FASTER things happen in the greenhouse?

It's 𝗢𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 where I invite you to a 15 second ocean meditation with a photo. This week: Camargue, France.

Africa is building its future and storing carbon while doing it. Cement drives nearly 10% of global CO₂ emissions. Kenya is urbanizing quickly, with 250,000 new homes being built each year until 2030.

Barcelona! If you want to experience how living a good life in a city might look in the future, visit this city! I spent almost three weeks in Barcelona this October. Not the four-day tourist sprint, but living the rhythm of the city.

The concept for our greenhouse experiments is, turn it up to 11! Measuring carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from enhanced weathering (EW) in the real world sounds straightforward: apply rock dust to fields, measure the results, done. The reality? Much messier.

It's 𝗢𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 where I invite you to a 15 second ocean meditation with a photo. This week: Ebro Delta, Spain.

Das COVID Infektionsgeschehen geht wohl erstmal weiter runter in DE: Bei der @dgina.bsky.social Notaufnahme Ampel sieht die Kurve ähnlich aus wie bei @rv-enigma.bsky.social's Datenauswertung, nur war der Peak in den ZNAs ca. 1 Woche später (ca. 22.10.).

Risto Siilasmaa, former CEO of Nokia, once said, “No bad news is bad.” He’s the man who rescued Nokia from bankruptcy and guided it back to becoming one of the world’s most resilient tech companies.

When a company grows to 30 employees, everything suddenly changes. One day, you're a scrappy startup where everyone does everything. The next, you can't keep track of who's working on what.

COVID-Daten der @DGINA_eV Notaufnahmeampel zeigen ähnlich wie die Daten, die @rv_enigma unten aufbereitet hat, dass der Herbstpeak "durch" sein könnte. Es ergäbe sich ein ganz ähnlicher Verlauf wie im Vorjahr, aber auf niedrigerem Gesamtniveau. Ob sich der Trend bestätigt wissen wir in 1-2 Wochen.

The 4 stages for MRV of ERW look like this: 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝟭: 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 (𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲): Think of this as the preparation stage. We measure the emissions related to the production, transport and spreading of rock, which is fairly straightforward.

It's 𝗢𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 where I invite you to a 15 second ocean meditation with a photo. This week: Water Spout, Liguria, Italy.

Carbon removal only works if you can prove it. That’s the problem Carbonfuture set out to solve.

Buying durable carbon removal should take two minutes and a credit card, not weeks of emails. When we tried to purchase ~200 tonnes of near-term (2025+) CDR ourselves, only two vendors had true “buy now” checkout.

Companies - like every other group of people doing something together - create their own cultures. Building cultures should be an intentional process. Don’t let it “just happen”.

There are basically three common options to measure enhanced weathering, where we redirect a small portion of the field’s carbon cycle into the leachate waters:

It's 𝗢𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 where I invite you to a 15 second ocean meditation with a photo. This week: Glacier Block, Diamond Beach, Iceland.

For enhanced weathering projects, there is very little alternative to a spreader if you want to bring rock dust onto farmland at the necessary rates of 10 to 40 tons per hectare.

“This is my video game.” That’s how HubSpot founder & CTO Dharmesh Shah describes his side projects. In a recent interview, he said:

The fundamental concept of enhanced weathering is to redirect a small part of the carbon cycle that happens naturally in a field in a way so that this carbon is redirected into the leachate waters in the form of bicarbonate.

It's 𝗢𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 where I invite you to a 15 second ocean meditation with a photo. This week: Clownfish, Maldives.

The counterintuitive thing I learned after building Paessler for 20 years: Programmers should never design your user interface.

What you see here is a pile of 29 tons of basalt dust, one truckload. To fight climate change, this rock can suck 9 tons of CO₂ from the ambient air when placed on the right soil at the right location.

@martin46er1.bsky.social‘s Modell ist m.E. notorisch verläßlich darin den Covid-Verlauf für die nächsten Wochen „gut genug“ vorherzusagen. Es zeigt einen dunkelziffer-korrigierten Peak um Inzidenz 1000 ca. Mitte November (grobe Verdopplung ab heute).

Carbon removal only works if storage is safe, permanent, and scalable. That’s why we’re excited to back Cella.

𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗢𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 where I invite you to a 15 second ocean meditation with a photo. (This week: Múlafossur Waterfall, Vágar Island, Faroe Islands)

Jetzt schlägt auch das Signal bei der @dgina.bsky.social Notaufnahmeampel an: basierend auf den COVID-Hospitalisierungen der meldenden ZNAs zeigt meine Schätzung aktuell eine Inzidenz von ca. 700-900, etwas höher als was @rv-enigma.bsky.social unten schätzt (aber kein tatsächlich anderes Ergebnis).

If you scroll through climate headlines right now, it’s easy to feel discouraged. BP scaling back its wind plans. Big banks pulling out of net-zero alliances. Google’s emissions go up instead of down. In the US, political winds are blowing hard against decarbonization efforts.

In our latest greenhouse experiment, we saw something striking: Three pots with the same sandy soil, light, water, and temperature. But one pot flourished, while the others grew slower. The difference? Particle size.

In the industry of enhanced weathering, I see three main categories of companies: Stone throwers, shovel makers and accountants. And there are some mixed forms, too, at least for now.

„Our“ side of the Internet, the one we like! Such a nice video! youtu.be/22GN93fOd4s?...

It's 𝗢𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 where I invite you to a 15 second ocean meditation with a photo (This week: Westcoast, Portugal)

The field of Enhanced Weathering (EW) is making steady progress. Three years ago, our TRL chart of the EW industry showed many yellow and red boxes. Today, it looks much greener. Here’s what has changed since 2022:

Due to the climate crisis humans will need more cooling, and I mean that in a dual meaning. On one hand, my observation is that many people have not yet realized that they will need more capable means of cooling their houses and offices in the near future.

Inzwischen ist der von @rv-enigma.bsky.social gezeigten Anstieg der COVID-Infektionen auch in den COVID-Hospitalisierungen der @dgina.bsky.social Notaufnahme Ampel angekommen, daraus geschätzte Inzidenz ca. 400. Werte deutlich unter den 3 Vorjahren. Aber Personalausfall auf Vorjahresniveau.

There are potential advantages to doing enhanced weathering projects in the tropics compared to the Northern Hemisphere (e.g. Europe, USA/Canada).

Portfolio Spotlight: Rock Flour Co. Rock Flour Co. didn’t invent a new element. They just unlocked one that glaciers have been making for millennia.

24 years ago, I made a bet that could have ruined me. It was August 2001. The dot-com crash was in full freefall. Companies were folding left and right.

When rock dust is spread on agricultural land, there are a lot of other things happening additionally to the carbon dioxide removal effect. Some of them are very favorable for the farmers.

Everybody in the biochar field, please listen up: This project needs your support! Biochar, the only currently scalable Carbon Removal method, needs your help!

I’ve told my teams this for decades: Be frugal with everything, except the tools that shape your output. You don’t need to spend money for prestige, but you should spend money where it counts.

The world’s largest EW greenhouse experiment just produced a scientific treasure: 1,000+ soil & biomass samples. Since 2023, we’ve been running 400 pot experiments near Fürth, Germany, testing 16 soils and 12 feedstocks with lolium perenne.

For enhanced weathering, the general rule of thumb is that smaller grains should weather faster. But a rock dust with a smaller grain size does not automatically have a higher weathering rate!

Decarbonizing agriculture is happening today, in Thailand, thanks to Happy Ground. What began as a venture, founded by Pearl Pattamaphon Dumnui and Moh Suthasiny, linking farmers to urban consumers has grown into a climate-tech company tackling Scope 3 emissions with:

Der Faktencheck zum Thema Windräder: 6 Gründe gegen Windkraft die keine sind. Wieder ein frisches und kompetentes Erklär-Video auf Patrick Niedermayer‘s Youtube Kanal. youtu.be/WHBNZWZGyRY

Where can you buy 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 online, without endless sales calls and wire transfers? We searched for a directory, but we couldn’t find one. Instead, we built one: cdr-shops.com.

Weiterhin zeigen die COVID-Hospitalisierungen der ZNAs der @dgina.bsky.social Notaufnahme Ampel keinen Anstieg an (ähnlich wie die ITS Zahlen, inkl. "Delle" im Juli), während die Infektionszahlen zu steigen scheinen (siehe Daten von @rv-enigma.bsky.social unten).