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27 Mar 2025 | Emily Brinkert
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Today I’m very excited to introduce you all to Garrett Lutz, Carbon Accounting Associate at Charm. Garrett brings a wealth of experience in carbon accounting for complex operations. Before joining Charm, Garrett worked with companies like Meta helping manage Scope 3 emissions for large-scale construction builds.
So, what does it take to manage carbon accounting for one of the fastest growing carbon removal operations on the planet? Let’s find out.
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I grew up in the east county of San Diego. I’ve always been obsessed with nature and have a deep respect for all plants and animals and the symbiotic relationships that have formed over many thousands of years. I moved to the Bay Area for University, lived there for over 10 years, and recently moved to CO for my wonderful fiancé (eventually leading me here to Charm, yes!)
I’ll be helping the Monitoring, Reporting & Verification ("MRV") team scale up by bridging the gap between data collection, analytics, and operations. My goal is to get all the data required for MRV while removing burdens from the teams who provide the data whenever possible. It's a combination of automation & manual work to ensure accuracy required to deliver transparent and trusted carbon removal.
Our biggest challenge will be to not lose ourselves in the inevitable evolution of more automation. Automation and leveraging technology is the only way for us to effectively and efficiently scale, but we can’t lose sight of the operators who make it all happen, and the constant need for manual quality assurance and audit.
I’m excited to help bridge the gap between our operations and MRV. MRV is an extremely data intensive process, with countless stakeholders and an immense workload. Being onsite at Charm Colorado will allow us to systemize and shore up our MRV processes across production and injection operations.
Two books:
Why We Sleep - I think everyone can appreciate this book since we spend such a large % of our lives doing this. Great science around sleep, and how it is in many ways, much more important than anything we do awake.
Alexander at the End of the World - A good book about Alexander the Great in the final years of his conquest. His cross collaboration and delegation of responsibilities across an immense geographical area with no communication technology is extremely impressive, and the battles and history is entertaining.
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Emily Brinkert
Head of People
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There are many challenges associated with gasification, especially when it comes to gasification of grasses, which are preferable for their high yield and low cost per dry ton. The biggest challenges are ash slagging, acid gas removal, heat transfer into the grass, optimal moisture content, ash disposal, and a very long list of other fascinating puzzles… (we’re hiring!) but today we’re going to talk about one challenge that seemed extremely easy at first glance: how do you load grass into the gasifier?
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