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Air Loom: Innovating Direct Carbon Capture Technology
TLDR Air Loom, co-founded by Shashank Samala, focuses on direct carbon capture technology using cost-effective and scalable solutions like baking limestone to capture CO2 from the air. With plans to scale up operations globally, Air Loom aims to capture a billion tons of CO2 per year by the 2030s to address the challenge of reducing global carbon emissions and combatting climate change.
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Shashank Samala co-founded Air Loom, a company focused on direct carbon capture technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, with the goal of making a meaningful impact on global decarbonization efforts.
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Shashank Samala, with a background in manufacturing and robotics, delved into the world of carbon removal and capture to address the challenge of reducing global carbon emissions and mitigating the effects of climate change.
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Carbon capture technologies involve filtering out carbon from the air, and Heirloom focused on developing a cost-effective and scalable natural solution for this problem.
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Heirloom's technology focuses on using abundant and cheap materials like limestone to remove CO2 from the air as a cost-effective and scalable solution for decarbonization.
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Heirloom's technology involves baking limestone to turn it into calcium oxide, which is then used to capture CO2 from the air, with corporations like Microsoft and Stripe purchasing these carbon removals to reach net zero emissions.
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Corporations are preparing to purchase carbon removals to meet net zero emissions targets, with a potential trillion-dollar industry emerging as the demand for carbon removals is projected to exceed supply by 2030.
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Heirloom, a direct carbon capture company, has a facility in Tracy, California that captures and stores CO2 from the air, with plans to scale up operations and sequester CO2 underground starting next year.
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Heirloom aims to scale up operations to capture a billion tons of CO2 per year by building around a thousand facilities, each removing a million tons annually, which are land-efficient and smaller in size compared to traditional industrial facilities, with plans to expand globally to regions with cheap renewable energy and available land.
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Heirloom plans to break ground on a facility in Louisiana next year and aims to scale up to capturing a billion tons of CO2 per year by the 2030s through building low-cost, land-efficient facilities globally.
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