
Calvin French-Owen
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Exploring the oddities of science and computing. Building: matrices.com Prev: co-founder @Segment, @MIT
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https://calv.info 03-05-2009 14:51:57
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10,000s of tons of CO2/year: how much we can remove from the air in 2023 1,000,000,000s of tons of CO2/year: how much we need to remove by 2050 We need to double our capacity every 21 months for the next 27 years Who’s working on this now? Read here: jamie-wong.com/post/carbon-di…


Ironmaking for steel is a full 8% of global emissions, and is considered a "hard to abate" emissions source by many. A year ago Calvin French-Owen challenged me to make fossil-free iron in my back yard using bio-oil in just 4 days. I laughed at him: making iron isn't like making software.





Excited to share that we’ve raised a $25M Series A, led by @JenniferHLi a16z along with Sequoia Capital, The General Partnership ("TheGP"), Felicis, Zapier, and @mongoDB Ventures: stainlessapi.com/blog/stainless…

