Diamonds
It seems too good to be true: making diamonds as a natural climate solution. Well, perhaps not entirely natural, but a carbon sink nevertheless. This is the new business venture of environmental entrepreneur and founder of the UK renewable energy company Ecotricity, Dale Vince. A mined one-carat diamond entails digging up 1,000 tonnes of rock and earth, using 3,890 litres of water and emitting more than 108 kilograms of carbon dioxide. Vince’s new business, called Sky Diamonds, will extract CO2 from the air to manufacture 1,000 carats of carbon-negative diamonds, all molecularly identical to mined stones. Sustainability can sparkle.
— Wayne Visser
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