E20 Mote: Carbon-Negative Hydrogen from Wood Waste - with Mac Kennedy & Josh Stolaroff

In this session of This Is CDR we are pleased to welcome Mac Kennedy and Josh Stolaroff from Mote to present the company’s wood waste to carbon negative hydrogen CDR pathway. Mote was recently funded by investors and will be opening a 150KtCO2/yr demonstration plant in Bakersfield CA in 2024.

Hosted by Toby Bryce and Megha Raghavan

ABOUT OUR GUESTS Mac Kennedy is the CEO of Mote. He is an environmental lawyer with experience working in the U.S. courts, Senate, House, EPA, DOE, and DOJ. Josh Stolaroff is the CTO of Mote. He is an environmental engineer who helped create the technology that became Carbon Engineering, and then helped start and later run the CCS program at Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

LINKS Mote’s website - https://www.motehydrogen.com/ Prof. Holly Jean Buck’s website - https://www.geo.design/ - Book - Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough - https://www.versobooks.com/books/3879….

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