Hi,

Last week I was at a Department of Energy workshop about how synthetic biology can unlock carbon removal.

Here’s some questions that came out of the workshop:

• How can we use synthetic biology to improve measurement, reporting, and verification of carbon removal? Enhancing satellite measurements of land and ocean?

• How do we make photosynthesis more effective? This has been a big challenge for a long time, really hard to pull of but if we did, wow game changer.

• What about land use, how can cell free synthetic biology be used to solve for concerns around land use and carbon removal.

All this becomes possible when we unleash the world's synthetic biologists to work on carbon removal solutions.

This line of thinking applies to a bunch of other fields too! Chemists, aerospace engineers, bankers, marketers, negotiators, and more.

Before this workshop, I often caught myself saying we're starting from scratch. But our civilization already knows how to create new things and scale up quickly. There's lifetimes of experience we can leverage - and much more to discover, too. Everyone can contribute the knowledge they have now to getting to large scale carbon removal.

If you have a friend who is a super-expert in some other field, go talk with them about carbon removal. I'll bet there's a way you can make a connection to get them thinking.

Unlocking existing experience is how we get a big leap forward on removing a billion tons of carbon dioxide by 2030.

Tito

P.S. As the holidays are coming up, consider buying Thanks a Ton greeting cards to spark conversations about carbon removal. There's cards for your mellow friends and your weirdo friends alike. (this one is my favorite)