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Talal Al Shukairi

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  1. “Segment in 2015, I was trying to figure out how we should offset our emissions and was working with some folks on the team to figure out what our emissions were and what was available to offset those emissions and how we could reduce them. And we implemented a lot of the reductions first, like swapping out beef for chicken and lunches and trying to encourage commuting by train and bus and so on. Ultimately, we had some emissions from flying salespeople around and so on that we couldn't get rid of. And so we went out and we bought some offsets of Indonesian rainforest and Brazilian rainforest, like the stuff that was available. And we did that a year later. I was like, wait a second, what happened when we made these purchases? And the deeper that I dug into what was going on there, I was like, oh, no, this is bad. I'm not convinced that anything could happen here. Like I'm not convinced that any carbon impact happened at all. And so as we continued to dig in there, I became pretty convinced that just a good product didn't exist.”

    2022-12-13 · a16z Podcast · Carbon Solutions Now and Next: From Biomass to Mineralization · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Comes to the abundance of the rock itself, that's not a limiting factor. In fact, we've done some just back at the envelope calculations and we understand that the amount of peridotite that exists in Oman and the UAE alone could mineralize trillions of tons of CO2. Basically, all the emissions that humans have ever emitted since the pre-industrial age, we're able to snap our fingers and convert all that peridotide into neurot carbonate minerals through the mineralization process.”

    2022-12-13 · a16z Podcast · Carbon Solutions Now and Next: From Biomass to Mineralization · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source