Heirloom

Heirloom's co-founder Noah McQueen has been named to MIT Technology Review's list of 2024 Innovators Under 35! "Noah McQueen, 28, cofounded Heirloom Carbon Technologies in 2020 in a bid to drive down the costs and scale up [carbon removal] facilities.?As an undergraduate at the Colorado School of Mines, McQueen had been searching for ways to use their love of math and science to achieve “an impact that’s bigger than myself.” When they began working with Jennifer Wilcox, a chemical engineering professor who had done pioneering work on capturing carbon dioxide from industrial plants or plucking it out of the air, McQueen finally saw a way to do so." Read the full write-up ?? https://lnkd.in/eFuhUgR3

Thank you to David St. Etienne of the The Louisiana Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Inc for the warm welcome to Shreveport, where we’ll be harnessing the talents of minority-, women-, and veteran-owned businesses to power the clean industrial revolution! https://lnkd.in/dqnkMADY

In the two years since the Inflation Reduction Act's passage, we’ve opened America’s first commercial Direct Air Capture (DAC) facility, announced two future facilities in? Louisiana (including a million-ton removal DAC Hub which will create thousands of jobs) and signed some of the largest deals in carbon removal to-date. Thank you to the leaders who secured the passage of this historical legislation. Your votes have put? America on the cutting edge of climate innovation!

Direct Air Capture isn't science fiction––it's real and ready to scale! On the?S&P Global?podcast, hear from our very own Max Scholten about how Heirloom is lowering the costs of carbon removal to keep our climate goals within reach. https://lnkd.in/gZE2paMp

Heirloom and our partners have been awarded U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding to study the feasibility of two Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs in Illinois and Florida! Led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, we’ll be laying the foundation for large-scale carbon removal in two regions with the geology, workforce, and infrastructure to expand a growing class of carbon removal careers. https://lnkd.in/giwWHADA

At times, the deluge of climate news can feel overwhelming and it can be difficult to know where and how to start making a difference. Thankfully Grant Faber has outlined eight actionable things you can do today to help remove CO2: ?? Advocating to political representatives ??♀? Volunteering with The OpenAir Collective ?? Communicating about CDR ?? Finding ways to increase demand ???? Applying for a new job ?? Finding solutions to the moral hazard ?? Continuing your education ?? Conducting “small experiments.” Read more from Grant ?? https://lnkd.in/euYMyJJJ Interested in working with Heirloom? See open roles ?? https://lnkd.in/eAhcUSex

You can spot?Heirloom?in the latest GatesNotes covering the?Breakthrough Energy Conference in London! From the West Coast to the Gulf Coast and beyond, we'll continue translating the Clean Industrial Revolution into good jobs, community benefits, and meaningful progress to protect people and the planet. https://lnkd.in/gUDdHQvz

In just the last 2 weeks, we’ve been invited to brief Republican governors, Progressive lawmakers, and Gulf Coast leaders alike. And whether we’re in Baton Rouge or the Bay Area, everytime we're asked how we scale the removal of greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere, our answer is the same: Public Policy. As my CEO Shashank Samala says, re-architecting our economy is hard. And young startups alone can’t remove & manage trash from the atmosphere -- unless the public sector, private sector & civil society work together. That’s why we need Demand-side policies, where new laws create new buyer categories for carbon dioxide removal (CDR). That's why we need Supply-side policies where state governments help offset the costs of capital, storage & energy. And that’s why we’re tirelessly pushing for both, with policymakers across the political spectrum. Heirloom made history this week by broadening the tent of bipartisan support, unveiling dual investments in the Republican-led state of Louisiana (just months after unveiling a novel technology in the Democratic led state of California). But the story can’t end just there. There are no red state wins & blue state wins in this game. There there are no partisan-ideologies to be foisted upon communities. There is only the precious heirloom of our planet. Our ability to pass it on; our energy security; our ability to invest in the people & places most impacted by a changing planet; our ability to create good quality jobs; & our ability to win the future. And all of that -- is rooted in thoughtful CDR & decarbonization policy. Many thanks to the Western Governors' Association; California's Environmental Caucus Chair Laura Friedman, Progressive Caucus Chair Alex T. Lee, Natural Resources Chair Isaac Bryan; Ken Branson; Louisiana's Secretary of Economic Development Susan Bonnett Bourgeois and the CADDO-BOSSIER PARISHES PORT COMMISSION for inviting Heirloom into the fold to rewrite our energy future together.

Learn how our two new 'carbon clean-up' facilities are leveraging workforce skills that have been honed in Louisiana for decades to scale a new critical climate technology - courtesy of Bloomberg! https://lnkd.in/gGTEqVNj

Heirloom is all about achieving a *low cost* Direct Air Capture to help reverse climate change. Part of that means leveraging a limestone based process to capture CO2. Another part is to deploy, deploy, and deploy to learn, scale, and come down the cost curve. Today’s an important day for both those fronts. With support from the Department of Energy and Louisiana’s Economic Development Office, we’re bringing nearly 320,000 tons of CO2 annual removal capacity to the city of Shreveport, Louisiana with two new DAC facilities, which will start coming online in 2026. There are a lot of moving pieces here but they all speak to how America is leading the world in deploying DAC and how Heirloom is leading America in that effort. As a reminder, Heirloom was selected last year, along with our partners Climeworks and Battelle, to participate in Project Cypress, the Department of Energy’s DAC Hub program in Louisiana. Wth $600 million in matching funding available, this is a catalytic public investment in DAC technology. I couldn’t be prouder of the Heirloom team – scaling to a 17,000 ton per year facility and then a 100,000 ton per year facility in just a few years. This scale-up will incorporate thousands of design and engineering improvements to drive down the cost of our technology and putting us on a path to be one of the most affordable permanent carbon removal technologies on the market. Today, I feel more optimistic than ever about our ability to really move the needle on climate change. See more ?? https://lnkd.in/ggkkWBHX