Autofracture ResearchShannon is working nanocarbon heterogeneous materials for use in energy storage and carbon removal. She's looking for co-founders. Do you geek out on nano carbons, contact resistance, phonons, electrodynamics and nanoelectronics, polymer science, carbonate chemistry, or 2D to 3D materials manufacturing, e.g., nanomaterial science, condensed matter, or chemical physics, or process engineering email: shannon at autofracture.com. Shannon picked nanomaterials to create leverage to build more efficient and higher power electric devices. If you currently use graphene or are working with Bio-tech, contact Shannon, as she's looking for future customers. Why is carbon relevant?Since 1750 we've emitted about 656 gigatonnes ^ by weight of carbon (GtC) from human-caused emissions. Shooting to match the future projected atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, we need to functionalize about 500 Gt carbon into solid form, assuming land use and the land sink change remains the same. In short, we need to fully remove carbon from the carbon cycle and permanently sequester it. To understand the scale, it would take about 1.5 million of the larger container ships completely filled with containers of atomic carbon to fully contain 575 GtC by weight *. This would be 39.2 times the current world shipping container traffic in 2016.Autofracture CarbonTo accelerate the ability to lower our cumulative anthropogenic carbon inventory after a majority fossil fuels are eliminated for energy use (net-zero), we still need to move petroleum based solid products (plastics, laments, adhesives, bitumen) and chemical feed-stocks to be sourced from DAC carbon, as well as bury carbon in various endpoints: basaltified carbon, bio-oil, and compressed CO₂ (provided this gaseous or liquid feed-stock is not repurposed to extract more fossil fuels).
From a commercial standpoint, to maximize the possibility of creating leading-edge products with high commercial value and utilize as much carbon as possible, we must build products from solid carbon-based materials, such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, and fullerenes, and lower the price to manufacture such goods such that there is an economic incentive to create products from these materials. If all are done, humans could build CCU-products and bury CO₂ to completely offset anthropogenic GHG emissions in combination with using non-carbon based forms of energy: renewables, geothermal, marine, and nuclear. To lower the cost to produce products from nano carbons, the method to manufacture nano carbons should be the lowest cost: practically free, in other words, open science & sourced. The fastest way to get wide-spread usage is to use an open-source license. Autofracture pledges, any manufacturing method producing highly refined carbon particles from atmospheric CO2 produced by Autofracture LLC, will be open-sourced (CC BY) and apart of ONC. Products built using the synthesized nanocarbon particles will be commercialized. |