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Don’t Expect to Fix the Climate From a Cushy Office  | Lowercarbon Capital

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You can’t troubleshoot a first-of-its-kind carbon capture device by A/B testing from a comfy office or by sending out user surveys. Of course, you can model a lot of carbon capture on a computer, or even do a whole Ph.D. on it. (I actually did.) All that’s cool, but none of it matters unless you can show that your tech works in the real world. My heroes, Seabound founders Alisha Fredriksson and Roujia Wen, did just that. After modeling all the theoretical physics and engineering on a modern-day mega computer in East London, they jumped on an ocean freighter in Turkey and traversed some of the world’s most contested waters to test their proprietary carbon capture technology. (Spoiler alert: it passed with flying colors.) You start by prepping for two weeks in a Turkish shipyard during the hottest summer on record. (There’s nothing like welding inside a shipping container in 110 F heat to remind you why you’re racing to decarbonize shipping.) After another two weeks of waiting for your d

Seabound founders, Alisha and Roujia, at a Turkish port getting ready to work very, very remotely. Building climate tech isn’t like building software. Not even close. You can’t troubleshoot a first-of-its-kind carbon capture device by A/B testing from a comfy office or by sending out user surveys. Of course, you can model a lot of carbon capture on a computer, or even do a whole Ph.D. on it. (I actually did.) All that’s cool, but none of it matters unless you can show that your tech works in the real world. My heroes, Seabound founders Alisha Fredriksson and Roujia Wen, did just that. After mo

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