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How Elon Musk’s cash helped these Aussies suck carbon out of the air

How Elon Musk’s cash helped these Aussies suck carbon out of the air

Convincing investors to back embryonic green industries like ‘direct air capture’ is hard, which makes grants from the likes of Elon Musk all the more welcome.

Peter Ker and Lap Phan
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When Professor Deanna D’Alessandro’s team followed the textbook method for using metal organic frameworks (MOFs) to extract carbon dioxide out of the air, they stumbled upon an inconvenient truth.

“It doesn’t work,” she told the Tech Zero podcast.

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Peter Ker
Peter KerResources reporterPeter Ker covers resource companies for The Australian Financial Review, based in Melbourne. Connect with Peter on Twitter. Email Peter at pker@afr.com
Lap Phan
Lap PhanHead of PodcastLap is a podcast producer and actor based in Sydney. He has appeared in numerous film, TV and theatre productions. Connect with Lap on Twitter. Email Lap at lphan@afr.com

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