The Open Air Collective are a group working on Carbon Capture systems for removing CO2 from the atmosphere , for either use as a feedstock, or for storage.
They’ve been having some success in their work, both in their work on developing the Open-Source versions of their hardware, and, in their legislative campaigning in the US.
They ended up drafting the legislation on Low-Carbon Cements for New York City, and, this is going forward to the State of New York, as a way of reducing the CO2 emissions for large cities.
NYC are paying more attention to this as it’s primarily coastal land.
More details about the NYC Drawdown project can be found here,
and Open Air Collective’s contribution is mentioned here,
In conjunction with the Luxembourg branch of the Pirate Party, the Open Air Collective are establshing a Feed-In Tariff for Carbon-Capture systems.
They are currently looking for submissions and comments to the legislative proposals that they are working on.
More details here,
There were a number of energy co-operatives that used the Feed-In Tariff for Solar power to get started.
Using the Open Air Collective’s Open-Source HardWare designs, it would be possible for Carbon Capture Co-operatives to use the Carbon-Capture Feed-In Tariff to get them started.
This form of future revenue stream, would make finding financing way easier, and, as it’s an infrastructure technology niche, then running it as a co-operative is the obvious step.
( It’s also great to see the Pirate Party is still going strong. )
