Elon Musk spotlight on Christchurch carbon capture tech

Elon Musk spotlight on Christchurch carbon capture tech
Aspiring Materials processes abundant rock containing olivine into various products, including magnesium hydroxide for capturing carbon. (Image: Aspiring Materials)
Oliver Lewis
A Christchurch startup is one of just 10 companies to be profiled as part of an ongoing global competition sponsored by Elon Musk to sequester carbon.Aspiring Materials was founded in 2019 by Christopher Oze and Allan Scott, a geologist and a civil engineer who previously worked together to develop building materials for Mars. Their current venture has a more down-to-earth focus.As chief executive Mark Chadderton explains, the company takes commonly found ultramafic rocks and breaks them down using a chemical process into separat...

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