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Excited to share a fun project my friend TK and I are building. We’ve been roadtripping together for 15+ years and are huge podcast listeners

One thing we’ve always wanted was the ability to “hear” the places we were driving through - to listen to undiscovered stories that you might overhear at a local pub. So we’re trying to build it.

Under the hood we’re using perplexity to research places ang generate transcripts, then passes to elevenlabs for the audio. Built with 100% with cursor, running on vercel

Would love the HN feedback, questions & ideas - this is an early prototype!


hmmm...were you able to click/search for the company?

check this out: https://www.cdr.fyi/purchaser/microsoft


Good question!

CDR.fyi aggregates purchases, deliveries, and verifications of carbon removed and stored for more than 100 years

CDR.fyi does not track things like "avoided emissions" (like switching your fleet from gas to EV) or lower-permanence solutions (like planting trees)

(Methods show up on that chart when you hover, but good UX feedback there :)


depends on how many tons you're willing to make and whether you follow science-backed protocols :)

- Biochar: https://fs.hubspotusercontent00.net/hubfs/7518557/Supplier%2...

- Biooil: https://www.carbon-direct.com/insights/a-new-proto-protocol-...


How many tons? I own a forest that was historically used for timber, but I am thinking about making biochar at the small single tons level, and burying it into the soil.


yes, CDR.fyi only tracks high-permanence removals (v. low-permanence solutions or avoidance)


appreciate the feedback! we built CDR.fyi to answer a very simple question:

how big is the CDR market today and are we on scaling at the pace necessary to achieve global climate targets?


Co-founder of CDR.fyi, thanks for all the feedback and love for what we're building!

Carbon removal is definitely a unique market in the early innings, and our goal is to provide transparency into the market at it scales.

One important note: CDR.fyi aggregates purchases, deliveries, and verifications of carbon removed and stored for more than 100 years


"more than 100 years" really isn't a lot when we talk about climate change and storing emissions.


So, burning a gallon of gasoline makes 20 lbs of CO2, so 100 gallons produces one ton.

At your current spot price ($29), that means it costs $0.29 per gallon of gasoline to capture the released carbon.

I’m pretty optimistic about the viability (and necessity) of carbon capture, but that seems too good to be true.

In particular, it would mean that we don’t need to stop using fossil fuels, since that is rounding error vs. the price of gasoline.

Is anyone actually delivering captured carbon at that price yet?


The site confuses permanent and "we don't really know if permanent" removal technologies. The latter are a lot cheaper, but it's really deceptive.

I don't think this helps the field. "We turned carbon into rock" is really a whole different thing from "we put carbon into the soil and hope it stays there fingers crossed".

(Update: Here is some background why some of those methods are sketchy https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/soil-rev... )


>At your current spot price ($29), that means it costs $0.29 per gallon of gasoline to capture the released carbon.

The graph is deceptive because eyeballing the average rate gets you ~$300, not $29. There might be something funky going on with the averaging, because if you click into the individual producers, the price you get is on the order of hundreds of dollars, not tens of dollars.


If you tap on today’s spot price (which is nearly the lowest price on the graph), a tooltip pops up and says $29.

I tapped it because I wasn’t sure if the Y axis started at zero. (It does.)

Edit: Macroalgae is at $8. Is that in production yet?


to even list the price as a primary factor is also bad - you need to list how much carbon is created by your method for each unit of carbon you capture. This probably has to be based on the average carbon cost for energy a the location you are doing it (since even if you are all renewable on paper that renewable energy could be used to displace use of fossil fuels).


Surely they include emissions. Otherwise, I'd like to register my box fan as a carbon capture device.


hey vyrotek thanks for the request! mind filling this out a request and we'll follow up? https://segment.com/contact/requests/warehouse


Hey slachterman DashDB isn't yet on the roadmap, mind filling this out so we can follow up?

https://segment.com/contact/requests/warehouse


hey vyrotek - you can definitely build that report using Segment sources + BI tool.

Our salesforce source pulls in the Salesforce `Opportunities` and `Users` table (your sales team members). So to get sales by sales rep, you can join the `Opportunities` table to `Users` table, and then aggregate by sales rep.

Once you get the raw data into your data warehouse, you have a ton of flexibility with how you aggregate and analyze it.


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