Houston Chronicle by Andrea Leinfelder 1/29/2021
Moji Karimi’s phone started buzzing. Messages poured in through text, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Twitter; basically any avenue where friends and family could share Elon Musk’s $100 million tweet.
The Tesla co-founder and CEO — and world’s richest man, per Bloomberg — pledged to donate $100 million to support the “best carbon capture technology.†Transitioning to a sustainable energy economy is a top priority for him.
But his other priority, as the founder of SpaceX, is colonizing Mars. And there, the atmosphere is roughly 95 percent carbon dioxide.
Karimi, the co-founder of Houston-based Cemvita Factory, has a carbon capture and utilization system that could fit both priorities. Its technology can turn carbon dioxide into 30 different molecules, creating substances useful for Musk’s home in Texas and his envisioned developments on the Red Planet.
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