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Metalplant combines Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) with critical metals recovery using nickel hyperaccumulating plants. The idea at the core of the concept is to take the problem of metals like nickel in minerals used for ERW and turn it into a solution by recovering the metals through phytomining and using the revenue to subsidize the ERW process. While the long-term price target of the carbon dioxide removal industry is to get to below $100 per tonne, the long-term price target for nickel is well above the near $20,000 per tonne it is at today.This path has led us to create the world's first dedicated enhanced weathering commercial farms, along with the development of ERW-specific crops and our process also allows us to use a much higher volume of minerals with our hyperaccumulator plants because they have evolved to be tolerant to high pH and trace metals, growing natively in this region on 100% serpentine soils. This allows for a much higher density of CDR per Ha than other implementations of ERW to date (see picture of our 32-plot trial and photo of highest application rate). The serpentine soils we operate on are historically considered non-arable because they already contain high levels of these metals which we are able to recover and remediate over time. (We also have a method for chromium recovery...)Our goal is to make the world’s first economically viable CDR technique that is self-scaling via revenue from co-products. In order to do this, we are vertically integrated from our local quarries containing gigatonnes of magnesium-rich feedstock, to operating our own farms, to developing novel metallurgical extraction processes. By keeping all value at each step inside the company and operating all stages of the process, we can keep our heads down and focus on rapid upscaling in the future without any impediments.

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Eric spun Project Vesta out of his think tank Climigation in order to advance the science of coastal enhanced weathering (CEW) with real-world pilot projects. CEW proposes utilizing coastlines and the power of wave energy to efficiently accelerate the breakdown of a mineral called olivine. Each 1 tonne of olivine that weathers, removes approximately 1 tonne of CO2 from the atmosphere/ocean, while also having the potential to counteract ocean acidification. Olivine is highly abundant and inexpensive, and the process has the ability to scale up to billions of tonnes of CO2 removed per year. Taking into account minimizing grinding energy and transportation distance of the minerals, the process has the potential to be greater than 90% efficient. Until Project Vesta, there was no in situ pilot project deployed to demonstrate the safety and speed of the process. Project Vesta was started to bridge the research gap and perform experiments to prove the weathering rate, safety, and logistics and then certify its ability to remove carbon so that this process is available to be deployed on a global scale. Eric negotiated the world's first sale of carbon dioxide removal with coastal enhanced weathering. The world's first olivine coastal enhanced weathering pilot site was deployed on a beach in Southampton, New York in 2022.

Climigation is a "do" tank dedicated to developing and deploying novel gigatonne scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies and processes. After overseeing the initiation of the first coastal enhanced weathering pilot project with Project Vesta, Eric has returned to Climitigation to look at tackling other remaining problems in the Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) and CDR worlds. As of 2021, Eric is working full-time on a (currently stealth) carbon dioxide removal company working on overcoming limitations on terrestrial enhanced rock weathering. With the ultimate mission to creating a novel, permanent, and inexpensive method of CDR that has no unreasonably insurmountable limitations to reaching gigatonne scales of carbon removal per year. This new company is designed specifically to not be dependent on revenue from the sale of carbon dioxide removal credits., by generating lucrative, high-demand co-products that do not utilize the sequestered carbon in the end product.

Nootroo is a neurotechnology company dedicated to advancing the potential of the human mind through nootropics, a class of compounds that enhance learning and memory processes while also being protective of the brain. The term nootropics was coined in 1972 by a neuropharmacologist in Belgium to describe the properties of a novel molecule that did not fit into any known classifications due to it's targeted activity, acting only on the higher-level integrative activities of the mind. The term nootropic is directly translated from the Greek roots, "noos" meaning "mind," and "tropein" meaning "towards" to describe this unique class of compounds that act selectively "towards the mind."While many seek to water down what is considered a nootropic, a true nootropic must have ALL of the following properties:-Enhance learning and memory-Facilitate interhemispheric transfer of information-Enhance the brain's ability to resist aggressions such as physical and chemical damage.-Work directly only on the higher-level, integrative activity of the brain, and through that mechanism can strengthen subcortical processes-Must be non-toxic even at high doses over long-term administration and have little-to-no side effects. Nootroo is the original nootropics company and prides itself on being the "The Gold Standard in Nootropics" because of our strictness to following the science and for our commitment to only using the highest-quality and purest ingredients possible, as backed up by 3rd-party lab testing.Nootroo has been featured in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Men's Health, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, GQ, New York Post, Gizmodo, Vice, among other publications. Nootroo has also been featured on the BBC, NPR, ABC Nightline News, ABC Australia, CBC, and in various programs and documentaries.