CO2Rail Company

2025 Fireside Chat on DAC Innovation I’m excited to share that I’ll be presenting at the upcoming 2025 Direct Air Capture Conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on May 15, 2025, during the DAC Technology Innovations Fireside Chat. I will be alongside Raciel Castillo and Jeff Holyoak during this Q&A event. Hosted by Energy Conference Network, this is one of the few annual events focused exclusively on Direct Air Capture — a critical technology in the global climate solution toolkit. Looking forward to connecting with fellow innovators, policymakers, and industry leaders pushing this space forward. Details & Registration: https://lnkd.in/gN9AYvNP Phelim Rowe Natalie Salamat #DirectAirCapture #ClimateTech #DAC2025 #CarbonRemoval #EnergyInnovation #CO2Removal

I couldn't agree more with Chris Wedding ⚡ and Jigar Shah. From rethinking VC expectations to embracing evergreen capital, and from managing FOAK risk to scaling deep-tech from niche markets outward, Jigar’s advice hits home. At CO2Rail, we live this every day—working to deploy rail-based Direct Air Capture at scale, powered by regenerative braking energy, and fully aligned with long-term infrastructure thinking. We don’t chase moonshots. We work to build grounded, scalable climate solutions. A firm providing services like Multiplier aims to do can be a game-changer for companies in this space and KUDOS to Jigar and Jonathan Silver for the forward and focused thinking. 🏆

🚆💨 CO2Rail: Transforming Rail Transport into a Carbon Removal Powerhouse With the U.S. Department of Energy investing $3.5 billion into Regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hubs, the race is on to scale carbon removal technology. While stationary DAC hubs are crucial, rail-based DAC—like CO2Rail—offers an innovative, scalable solution that turns trains into mobile carbon removal units.  Unlike traditional DAC, which requires massive infrastructure and energy input, CO2Rail leverages regenerative braking energy from trains to remove CO₂ more efficiently. This approach not only reduces costs per ton but also integrates seamlessly into existing rail networks, making it a potential game-changer in both decarbonizing rail transportation and reducing atmospheric CO₂ concentrations. With tech giants like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Salesforce investing in carbon removal, it's clear that DAC is gaining momentum. Could rail-based DAC be the next breakthrough in large-scale CO₂ removal?  #CO2Rail #DirectAirCapture #CarbonRemoval #SustainableTransport #ClimateAction #NetZero

Japan has become the first nation to incorporate durable carbon dioxide removals into its national emissions trading system, the Green Transformation ETS (GX-ETS). This pioneering move integrates high-quality carbon removal credits into a compliance market, setting a precedent for other countries aiming for carbon neutrality.

CO2Rail Company might change common perspectives like these on the commercial viability of DAC, BUT I completely agree with Nada Ahmed that energy demand is the biggest hurdle to widespread DAC deployment and it is MUCH, MUCH better to capture it at the source. Utilization of the enormous amount of regenerative braking energy that currently goes to waste in most trains is our game and our massive competitive advantage. By "enormous" I mean in excess of 400TWh/y globally in recovered but then immediately rheostatically burned off (and completely wasted) sustainable energy. What can that 400TWh/y, or about 4X the output of the Three Gorges Dam, do? In round numbers, about 1 Gigaton of DAC. I have been working for over 20 years on systems to begin to utilize this enormous pool of immediately available sustainable energy. After some progress in other use case iterations that are being deployed in the latest generation of locomotives, it is clear that DAC is by far and away the best use case from a carbon mitigation perspective and will soon be the best use caae from a commercial perspective as well. Our Joule paper is now open access and I encourage anyone that might be interested in what we are working on to take a look and please do not hesitate to let me know if you have any questions... https://lnkd.in/gTDBHv6k

America deserves world-class infrastructure, and here at Amtrak we're doing our part! With a strong American workforce and private-sector partners, we're building new bridges, tunnels, and trains to help meet the historic demand for intercity passenger rail around the United States.   We recently convened an industry roundtable with dozens of major industry partners representing construction, manufacturing, rail supply, engineering, and other sectors to discuss trends and highlight the hundreds of major rebuilding projects that Amtrak and its partners are delivering across America today and into the future.   Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eyAJGV7r   Thanks to our partners from AECOM, Alstom, Clark Construction Group, Coalition for the Northeast Corridor, Herzog, HNTB Corporation, Jacobs, Kiewit, Parsons Corporation, PennFab, Inc., Railroad Construction Company, Inc., Siemens, Skanska, STV, voestalpine Railway Systems, Vossloh North America, Wabtec Corporation, WSP in the U.S., and others for joining us.

Exciting news! Our cover highlighted Joule paper, "RAIL-BASED DIRECT AIR CARBON CAPTURE", is now open access and available for download. The paper highlights the significant impact that CO2Rail will have in removing gigatons of CO2 through DIRECT AIR CAPTURE (DAC) which is self-powered by LOCOMOTIVE REGENERATIVE BRAKING. A tremendous source of sustainable energy that currently goes to waste in most trains. ACCESS THE PAPER HERE: https://lnkd.in/gTDBHv6k #DirectAirCapture #Innovation #Climate

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