Climitigation
Climitigation is a science-based, politically neutral think tank dedicated to mitigating climate change. Our first project, Project Vesta, involves accelerating the weathering of the rock olivine on beaches, to sequester carbon in the sea floor.
ReadSep 16, 2017
Climitigation is a science-based, politically neutral think tank dedicated to mitigating climate change. There are many organizations, governments and people working on stopping or slowing the release of CO2 in the atmosphere, but we do not think there is enough of a focus on...
ReadOct 25, 2017
Did you know that most grains like corn only last one season and have to be planted, tilled, etc each and every year? They are called annuals and so each year the replanting process causes tons of waste, topsoil erosion, fertilizer runoff, pollution and CO2 release. It would...
ReadApr 25, 2018
It is rare to come across a solution to lowering the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere that is simple, yet plausible, and which can be started right away with no new science. Not only is this process possible, it is actually already underway as you read this and has been...
ReadOct 25, 2017
Nuclear diamond batteries are a concept that was presented at the University of Bristol's "Ideas to change the world" lecture series in 2016. The concept is to take the problem of existing nuclear waste and convert it into a long-term supply of clean energy. In nuclear...
ReadJun 24, 2021
The Carbon Removal X Prize was launched with a livestreamed interview between Elon Musk and Peter Diamandis. This post is based on my extemporaneous/shorthand notes while watching it, which I then went back over and filled in with links to specific points in the video where...
ReadDec 26, 2021
"A big part of this movie’s brilliance lies in its indirect metaphor—a giant comet that no one on Earth, no matter how rich or mobile, can avoid. The Earth-destroying threat will arrive in six months. The comet becomes a wonderful vehicle for maligning the toxic political...
ReadDec 26, 2021
"A prominent Stanford University professor has outlined a roadmap for the United States to meet its total energy needs using 100% wind, water and solar by 2050. ... The Achilles' heel of a completely renewable grid, many argue, is that it is not stable enough to be reliable....
ReadDec 26, 2021
"Long-simmering speculations about where to hide from climate change picked up in February 2019 when the mayor of Buffalo, New York, declared that the city on Lake Erie’s eastern edge would one day become a “climate refuge.” Two months later, a New York Times article made the...
ReadDec 26, 2021
"Flinders University researchers may have discovered what ultimately led to the extinction of the last of Australia’s massive thunder birds, Genyornis newtoni. The clue came with the discovery of a rare fossil. The find, by researchers at Flinders University, unveiled severe...
ReadDec 26, 2021
"Last weekend, Sen. Joe Manchin threw a wrench into discussions of the Build Back Better (BBB) Act by indicating he does not currently support its passage - imperiling the bill's future and delaying the urgent funding it would provide to support families reeling from the...
ReadDec 26, 2021
"A pair of hurricanes and an earthquake left Puerto Rico’s power system in tatters. But now residents and clean-energy advocates see hope in the island’s effort to rebuild the electric grid — saying it could offer the rest of the nation a model for achieving President Joe...
ReadDec 28, 2021
"There are 13 new battery cell gigafactories coming online in the US by 2025, according to the Department of Energy. These factories are ushering in a new era of battery production in the US. Aside from Tesla and Panasonic’s Gigafactory Nevada, which supplies battery cells...
ReadJan 5, 2022
"-Renewable energy prices have fallen far more quickly than the industry anticipated, -They are fast becoming cheaper than fossil fuels. -A rapid transition to emissions-free ‘green’ energy could save many trillions of dollars in energy costs - and help combat climate change....
ReadJan 6, 2022
"The accelerating melting of the Himalayan glaciers threatens the water supply of millions of people in Asia, new research warns. The study concludes that over recent decades the Himalayan glaciers have lost ice ten times more quickly over the last few decades than on average...
ReadJan 6, 2022
"One of the key problems with lithium-ion batteries is that, over time, they do lose some of their battery life. This is why recycling them is so important. But what if there was a way to bring them back to life? And by this, I mean make them as good as new without recycling...
ReadJan 6, 2022
"A new solar technology introduced yesterday at CES could bring power-producing roofs mainstream by relying on an old building material—nails. For years, homeowners who wanted solar power have stripped their old roofs of shingles, added new ones, and then slapped large solar...
ReadJan 7, 2022
"The contributions of single greenhouse gas emitters to country-level climate change are generally not disentangled, despite their relevance for climate policy and litigation. Here, we quantify the contributions of the five largest emitters (China, US, EU-27, India, and...
ReadJan 8, 2022
Good pop science article on next steps to find out what is going on with Thwaites: "The team is part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, which has spent the past few years documenting what’s going there. Their findings have been, to put it lightly, pretty...
ReadJan 8, 2022
"More than 400 weather stations around the world beat their all-time highest temperature records in 2021, according to a climatologist who has been compiling weather records for over 30 years. ... A few continental and planetary records fell too: Africa had its warmest June...
ReadJan 8, 2022
This is dumb: "The airline company Lufthansa will operate 18,000 “empty, unnecessary” flights this winter that would have otherwise been cancelled due to lack of passengers. The empty flights will run because of rules imposed by the European Union which mean that airlines...
ReadJan 11, 2022
"Offshore wind power needs energy storage and power regulation, and Ocean Grazer has invented an offshore energy storage system that will sit at the bottom of the sea and manage the flow of electricity through the power grid. ... Ocean Battery is based on hydro dam technology...
ReadMay 21, 2022
This article reads like a Google marketing press release, but the design is pretty cool and is cutting edge in terms of some of these design aspects, especially the way the solar is arrayed to capture early morning and early evening sun to avoid the standard peak of solar...
ReadMay 29, 2022
A new technique can grow wood-like plant material in the lab, allowing for tuning of properties like weight/strength...you can “grow” the materials in exactly the shape that you need, so you don’t need to do any subtractive manufacturing after the fact....
ReadMar 31, 2024
"Electricity and transportation each contribute about a quarter of America’s carbon emissions. Thanks to the growth of renewable energy and electric cars, those sectors are starting to get cleaner. Heavy industry is also a major source of pollution. The White House pledged...
ReadMar 31, 2024
"Melting Polar Ice Sheets Are Slowing Earth’s Rotation. That Could Change How We Keep Time. As ice melts into water and flows toward the equator, it redistributes mass around the Earth, affecting the planet’s spin, a new study finds." Link
ReadApr 1, 2024
Heat Waves Are Moving Slower and Staying Longer, Study Finds | Climate change is making heat waves linger for longer stretches of time, exacerbating the effects of extreme temperatures...
ReadApr 2, 2024
"Heat Waves Are Moving Slower and Staying Longer, Study Finds | Climate change is making heat waves linger for longer stretches of time, exacerbating the effects of extreme temperatures." Link
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