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Revolutionizing Ocean Data: Scaling Climate Solutions with Allan Adams of Aquatic Labs

Hardware to Save a Planet · 13 Feb 2025 · 54m · Episode 72

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Allan Adams, founder and CEO of Aquatic Labs, explains how his company is building scalable sensors to measure ocean alkalinity, a critical metric for verifying ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). He details the transition from traditional, expensive laboratory titration to a handheld device that generates reagents on-chip to perform in-situ titration. Adams discusses the business model of selling verified data streams rather than just hardware, and the strategic challenge of scaling manufacturing before the carbon market matures.

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Aquatic Labs, Synapse, MIT, Woods Hole, Frontier, Stripe, Microsoft, Yardstick, Carbon Run, Calcaria
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