Brad Crabtree serves as Vice President for Carbon Management at the Great Plains Institute (GPI) and has nearly three decades experience in energy and climate policy. Crabtree oversees GPI’s carbon management portfolio; he helped launch the State Carbon Capture Work Group, a 16-state initiative first convened in 2015 to foster commercial deployment of carbon capture…
“Climate change is the biggest challenge we face, and carbon capture has a chance to contribute toward solving it.” This issue of the GCI newsletter features Stafford Sheehan, Chief Technology Officer at Air Company. Air Company is a technology, engineering and design company that transforms carbon dioxide into products like vodka and sanitizer. Stafford received his PhD from Yale University…
Volker Sick and colleagues recently published a paper on the relative impacts of carbon utilization for different area of production. “Decisions to globally scale CCU operations will require guidance on identifying products that maximize the climate benefits of using captured CO2,” said lead author Dwarak Ravikumar, a former postdoctoral researcher at U-M’s Center for Sustainable…
Volker Sick was recently interviewed by the Los Angeles Times about climate change. “We don’t have a silver bullet, one thing that fixes everything,” Sick said. “So we need individual action, we need policy action, new technology — we need to make changes in lots of things, but we need to do this with a…
““On the one hand, we should have done a lot of things 10 years ago. On the other hand, we know what to do now and we know how to do it. Let’s just do it. That idea, for me, is a big, big source of optimism.” Click here to read more.
“Carbon dioxide capture and utilization offers us the opportunity to help stabilize the climate, to ensure continued access to products that cannot be made without carbon, and to add critically needed jobs especially in underserved regions of the world. These are all urgent needs that require swift and large-scale action.” Click here to read more.
