Renewable Energy

When I began this project, my central question was deceptively simple: Where should we build carbon capture systems in the U.S.? But as I quickly learned, answering that question requires navigating a complex tangle of geology, infrastructure, policy, technology readiness — and above all, geography. This blog series represents my journey through that complexity, using…

Back when I first created Breathing Room, I was focused on modeling where infrastructure could align with subsurface geology—particularly in terms of saline reservoirs and depleted oil & gas fields. I used Python to identify ideal areas of the country for CCS as well as specific power plants which would be ideal candidates to deploy…