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What is the fastest way to 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.
Calling all scientists and engineers
Participate in physical science and engineering projects to
solidify carbon!
What is Open NanoCarbon?
A project to do open science to create open hardware that rapidly solidifies 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 be exponentially deployed to any place on Earth.
Crowd Source Open Science?
By crowdsourcing science and engineering, we should be able to find solutions faster than working in isolation.
Moonshot reboot: from excess anthropogenic warming 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.
Current Project Status
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
The future is unwritten as we have a choice to do radically better than continuing as usual. Continuing as usual would lead to massive emissions and increases to carbon dioxide concentration globally, and in 2-11 years for an overshoot of 1.5ºC.
Please get in touch via gitter.im or slack to help remotely or current status. Looking for more scientists to help with meta1 and plasma projects. Shannon is working on the Carbon Dioxide Removal Modeling Experiments, with fixes and readying the draft for publication.
Climate Change Resources
Climate NASA | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Newsroom | Global Carbon Project | ONC FAQ
How 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
Tentative event: Shannon has applied to the AGU 2023 fall meeting to present CDR Modeling Experiment (CDRMEx) on reduced complexity model to return to preindustrial and broader findings.
Adhoc Virtual Office Hours/Meetup/Gitter
(Github or Gitlab required to chat)
Date
12/11-12/15
Prior Events
Guest Speaker at SJSU seminar, slides are here.
Bay Area Youth Climate Summit, revised slides are here.
Bay Area Science Festival 2019, slides are here.
Bay Area Maker Faire 2019, slides are here.
Climate Tech Entrepreneurs Show & Tell hosted by ManyLabs, Y Combinator, and Open NanoCarbon and GCAS community platform event
International Conference on Negative CO2 Emissions
Poster Slides are here. The paper was open published here.
1517's Assembly celebrated the fund's namesake, the 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 support explicitly this project via PayPal: paypal.me/opennanocarbon. All funding and expenses are listed in the Google gsheet.