Challenge and Opportunity in Carbon
We must replace fossil fuels and eliminate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to mitigate global warming, and we must actively remove CO2 from our atmosphere. There has been little incentive to do this because CO2 is, by itself and at global emissions scales, presumed to be useless. We need to create economic motivations to:
- Pull CO2 from the air and transform it into a useful product with profitable and scalable markets.
- Steward our use of high energy density fuels, such as natural gas (methane, CH4), in new ways so that their energy content is accessible, but CO2 emissions are still eliminated.
These problems are conceptually linked and motivate the crux of ROSEI’s primary work with carbon: We need to extract carbon from these simple carbon-containing molecules and transform (upcycle) the carbon into high value materials.
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