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07 Nov 2022 | Peter Reinhardt
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We’re excited to announce that we’re opening a second location in Fort Lupton, Colorado, just outside of Denver, called the Charm Miniforge. The site will be responsible for biomass processing R&D, bio-oil gasification and ironmaking R&D, and forward-deployed pyrolysis testing and operations.
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Charm was founded in San Francisco, but Colorado and the Great Plains broadly will accelerate our R&D and operations in critical ways.
First, biomass is the key input to our bio-oil sequestration and bio-oil-based ironmaking processes, and the Great Plains are one of the largest biomass-generating regions in the world.
Second, many extremely talented engineers, operators, and businesspeople with deep experience in critical domains like farming, biomass, gasification and pyrolysis call this region home.
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In addition to a long list of open roles and an opportunity to build a major new hub for carbon removal and fossil-free ironmaking, two members of the Charm leadership team will immediately be based out of the Miniforge:
Jake Wilkins, Lead Engineer on Gasification, is relocating from San Francisco to drive our gasification and ironmaking R&D at the Miniforge.
Tim Thomson, incoming Head of Finance, is joining from Meati and will also be based at the Miniforge. He previously held senior finance roles at Impossible Foods, Plenty and Stripe.
Over the next year we expect to grow the team in Fort Lupton to 25+ people as we accelerate our R&D efforts and forward-deployed operations, hiring across engineering, operations and program management in particular. See open roles here: https://charmindustrial.com/team
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Peter Reinhardt
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What started as an April Fools' joke became a fun way to explain what Charm Industrial actually does - or at least try to! CharmVille is a browser-based factory simulation game where you build a carbon removal operation from scratch — sourcing biomass, running pyrolyzers, routing products by truck and rail, injecting bio-oil underground, and managing the economics of the whole thing. It was built in a week, mostly by an AI, and deployed to the entire company on April 1st with a Slack message that read: "Commissioned by Peter to diversify Charm's revenue streams into the thriving $180B video game sector." Nobody was sure if it was real. It was real.
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Brian Jamieson
Principal Scientist & TEA Guy
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What started as an April Fools' joke became a fun way to explain what Charm Industrial actually does - or at least try to! CharmVille is a browser-based factory simulation game where you build a carbon removal operation from scratch — sourcing biomass, running pyrolyzers, routing products by truck and rail, injecting bio-oil underground, and managing the economics of the whole thing. It was built in a week, mostly by an AI, and deployed to the entire company on April 1st with a Slack message that read: "Commissioned by Peter to diversify Charm's revenue streams into the thriving $180B video game sector." Nobody was sure if it was real. It was real.
Humanity has emitted hundreds of gigatonnes of CO₂. Now you can put it back underground.
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