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Big and Slow: Why Chemical Startups Are Rare

How high fixed costs and long payback periods encourage scale, inhibit value capture, and make it difficult to bring sustainable alternatives to market.

Jul 3 •

Darius Mortazavi

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Solid Raw Materials: A Sustainability Bottleneck

Atoms aren’t bits, but fluids get pretty close. The problem is that sustainable raw materials aren’t fluid.

Apr 8 •

Darius Mortazavi

Kinetics: The Chemical Industry's Kryptonite

How kinetics ruins control, leads to undesirable outcomes, and makes chemical production look like a casino.

Mar 9 •

Darius Mortazavi

Thermodynamics: Visible Emissions & Invisible Problems

The emissions that we see, what they teach us about making materials, and how to think about solutions.

Feb 23 •

Darius Mortazavi

Feedstockland

Feedstockland

The world of chemicals and materials amidst decarbonization, dematerialization, and reindustrialization.

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