Welcome to
arbonWhat is the fastest way generate solid carbon from atmospheric CO2 and accelerate decarbonization?
This grassroots open science Apollo-style project will find out by building and deploying open hardware.
Participate in physical science and engineering projects to
solidify carbon.
| Open Science | Open Source | Chat |
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| ONC Project Wiki | github.com/hsbay | gitter.im |
An open science consortium to create open hardware to rapidly solidify nanocarbons from atmospheric CO2.
The mission is to find the fastest way to create solid nanocarbons from atmospheric CO2. The projects will remove a portion of fossil fuel emitted carbon from the atmosphere and in turn positively affect the oceans while supplying nanocarbons as a consumable goods additive.
All resources will be or are open for the advancement and acceleration of Negative Emissions Technologies, climate science, and with the ultimate goal of accelerating climate restoration.
Why Solid Carbon?
Solid carbon is a useful commodity with a widely varying price that supports premium materials suitable for market entry by startups and makers. Solid carbon completely removes carbon from the global carbon cycle, allowing products to be made with carbon negative nanocarbons cradle to cradle.
What are Nanocarbons?
Nanocarbons, notably graphene, carbon nanotubes, and fullerenes, are single carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice yielding superlative electronics and structural properties. New materials made with nanocarbons can be made stronger, lighter, more conductive, withstand high heat, and have high optical clarity.
Fastest Way to Dissociate CO2?
At present, we don't know the fastest way to generate solid carbon (noncarbonate) in large volumes from the atmosphere. By investigating under-explored pathways of CO2 dissociation, we'll uncover efficiencies and leverage them in a large-volume high-throughput system.
Open Science?
Science is open when licensed to allow varying levels of sharing and reuse. All works by ONC are CC-BY open license, which allows complete sharing with attribution and total reuse, redistribution royalty-free. Zero cost to obtain the design and incorporate it into new works accelerates deployment. The device can then exponentially deployed to any place on Earth.
Crowd Source Open Science?
Moonshot reboot: beyond 1.5ºC to 0ºC by 2100!
Unique to ONC is implementing open methods to achieve the fastest path to exponential adoption and deployment, to scale, and ultimately affect and help the effort to reverse climate change.
Make with Carbon!
We'll work with makers, NGOs, and companies to run the hardware and solidify atmospheric carbon in the future. Keep in touch by joining the ONC email list.
The overall project is in the science review phase. Later we'll progress onward to experiments and validation, engineering, and finally production and deployment. Read and collaborate on the technical wiki.
Current News
She ran workshop: Climate Matters & Beyond at the Bay Area Youth Climate Summit on Oct 9th, 2021. The BAYC Climate Matters and Beyond slides are here.
Read Shannon's statement on racism and climate equity from the summer of 2020. It's critical that #BlackLivesMatter be supported to make headway in dissolving systemic racism. Support BLM and we'll be able to get back to working on climate.
Discovery Day at Oracle Park 2019
CDR and You Talk @ Maker Faire 2019
The best solutions at present are enhanced weathering solutions that sell carbon neutral to carbon negative aggregate like Blue Planet, and do everything in Project Drawdown (which would eliminate roughly 1T tonnes of CO₂), do more Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage, Direct Air Capture and more to equate to 1.5 trillion tonnes of CO₂. There's a full list of vendors and suppliers of carbon tech and recycled carbon at http://airminers.org.
The carbon tech community has a slack channel hosted by Airminers. Foundation for Climate Restoration is focused on solutions to have a healthy climate of 300 ppm by 2050 and matching the preindustrial temperature mean (1850-1900) at 2100.And Open NanoCarbon is looking for scientists and engineers willing to contribute to the open science and source.
Climate Change Resources
Climate NASA | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Newsroom | Global Carbon Project | ONC FAQHow to Stay Involved
Help us by joining our: email list or collaborate on any of the project topics on the wiki. How to technically contribute to the project is covered on the wiki.Events
| Venue | Date |
| Monthly Virtual Office Hours/Meetup/Gitter (Github, Gitlab or Twitter account required to chat) |
4th Tuesday 17:30-18:30 PT |
Prior Events
Poster Slides are here. The poster paper and paper pending for publication are here.
1517 Assembly
1517's Assembly celebrated the fund's namesake, quincentennial of Martin Luther 95 theses. My slides on entrepreneurship, higher education and science are here.
FAQ
Questions are answered on the FAQ page. As Open NanoCarbon grows, it will move under a 501(c)(3) organization.
Questions? Email: shannon at autofracture.com.
Contact Form
Donate
Donate to Shannon Fiume to explicitly support ONC via PayPal: paypal.me/opennanocarbon. My expenses are in google drive.
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