The Download: carbon removal’s future, and measuring pain using an app
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What’s next for carbon removal?
“Reliable assurance that a project’s declared ton of carbon savings equates to a real ton of emissions removed, reduced, or avoided is crucial,” Cynthia Giles,...
The Download: Creating the perfect baby, and carbon removal’s lofty promises
An emerging field of science is seeking to use cell analysis to predict what kind of a person an embryo might eventually become. Some parents...
The problem with Big Tech’s favorite carbon removal tech
While corporations, including tech giants like Microsoft, are betting big on this technology, there are a few potential problems with BECCS, as my colleague James...
The Download: Big Tech’s carbon removals plans, and the next wave of nuclear reactors
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Big Tech’s big...
Big Tech’s big bet on a controversial carbon removal tactic
BECCS is also substantially less expensive for buyers than, say, direct air capture, with weighted average prices of $210 a ton compared with $490 among...
The Download: carbon removal factories’ funding cuts, and AI toys
“OpenAI is building the future of AI on infrastructure it doesn’t own, power it doesn’t control, and capital it doesn’t have.” —Andrey Sidorenko, head of...
The Download: Apple’s eucalyptus carbon bet, and climate tech’s bad vibes
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside the controversial...
Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goal
Eucalyptus has become the region’s new lifeblood. “I’m going to plant some eucalyptus / I’ll get rich and you’ll fall in love with me,” sings...
Why the climate promises of AI sound a lot like carbon offsets
Even without any “breakthrough discoveries,” the IEA estimates, widespread adoption of AI applications could cut emissions by 1.4 billion tons in 2035. Those reductions, “if...