[practicalpants]

Not sure it’s about cynicism as much as about understanding what's going on.

The amount of CO2 sequestered is about 80 cars/year worth, and I’m not sure if that accounts for the thermal decomposition reactions, transport, or other steps involved with bio oil production. (Worth noting the “bio oil” is not a usable product, as Charmful says on their website it’s a waste product they’re burying in the ground.)

Say they had 1MM Stripes, operating at 10^6 scale, e.g. 80,000,000 cars worth, it would still actually make no difference, reducing yearly global CO2 output on the rough magnitude of .000001%.

Not sure what else to say.

[kisamoto]

It's more than the snapshot figure now though.

Carbon removal is early in the development cycle and needs rapid acceleration to be able to become more efficient and scalable.

However often the cost overshadows this need and companies choose the greenwashing "carbon credits" approach to save $$s which blocks the progress.

Nobody can live a life without being responsible for some carbon emissions at the moment. Even if we could, there is still an excess of CO₂ already present that we need to remove.

This is an early, important step.

[vidarh]

You're extrapolating from their very first contract. The point here is the development, and driving down cost.

[kolinko]

You know about the concept of exponential growth / hockey stick in startups and tech, right?