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Aaron Lavee

@adlavee

Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer | Vespene Energy. We mitigate harmful methane emissions by converting it to electricity to power onsite beneficial use.

 Los Angeles, CA
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Joined August 2009
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Excited to announce @Vespene_Energy’s 1st fundraising round w/ @Polychaincap. This investment will help us turn harmful landfill methane into clean power for carbon-negative Bitcoin mining. Thank you @Aoyon_A’s for your thoughtful article: bit.ly/3zINz2t
Renewable Energy Company Closes $4.3M Capital Round to Convert Landfill Methane Into Bitcoin

Renewable Energy Company Closes $4.3M Capital Round to Convert Landfill Methane Into Bitcoin

Vespene Energy’s first funding round was led by Polychain Capital.

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SWANA@SWANA12 Apr 2023
Landfills account for roughly 15% of US methane emission. And of the 2,600+ landfills in the US, less than a third have gas-to-energy operations. #SOAR2023 sponsor @VespeneEnergy seeks to fill this gap at no cost to landfills and fuel the transition to a renewable energy future
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Methane has 80x the warming power of CO2, yet 1500 US landfills continue to emit it freely. @Vespene_Energy CEO @Digital_Ore explains how self-sustaining microgrids can help us meet the administration’s methane targets. realclearenergy.org/articles…
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We will never fully understand the landfill methane problem if we can’t measure the amount of methane being released at landfill sites. Hopefully this next phase of research will add a new layer of transparency to the state of our landfills and bring new awareness to the issue.
ARCHIVED - NASA Climate (@NASAClimate) profile pictureARCHIVED - NASA Climate@NASAClimate15 Dec 2022
Methane from the waste sector makes up about 20% of human-caused methane emissions. A new project from a nonprofit group, Carbon Mapper, will use @NASA instruments and data to measure emissions from landfills around the globe. Full story ⬇️ climate.nasa.gov/news/3241/n…
Climate Change - NASA Science

Climate Change - NASA Science

NASA is a global leader in studying Earth’s changing climate.

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Great article, thanks for highlighting Vespene’s contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem and Methane Mitigation.
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NASA detects 50+ methane "super-emitters" from space

NASA detects 50+ methane "super-emitters" from space

Methane is a shorter-lived but more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Cleaning it up could have a quick impact on global warming.

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Vespene Energy (@Vespene_Energy) profile pictureVespene Energy@Vespene_Energy11 Nov 2022
Excited for Day 2 of @pacificbitcoin! Our team has been blown away by the energy from both the presenters and attendees - kudos to @Swanbitcoin for hosting
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I'm most looking forward to hearing @adlavee discuss @Vespene_Energy's method of harnessing methane gas from landfills to power BTC mining machines. What are you most looking forward to hearing about Texas Blockchain Summit @txblockchain1 ?? 👂👂
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Thanks @Nexus_PMG for featuring us on @TheBTUPod, enjoyed the conversation and it's great to spread awareness around methane mitigation.
Nexus PMG (@Nexus_PMG) profile pictureNexus PMG@Nexus_PMG18 Oct 2022
On episode 207 of the @TheBTUPod, we hear from @Vespene_Energy co-founder & CEO Adam Wright @Digital_Ore. 🎙⚡️ Vespene uses landfill methane to fuel #Bitcoin mining, in turn fueling the transition to a #renewableenergy future. Tune in: bit.ly/3VEKlXO
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In 2020, over 12 million metric tons of landfill methane were produced from municipal landfills in the US. What happens to the generated landfill methane? A thread:
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Thanks @alexstanczyk and @SwanBitcoin for hosting me today to talk about @Vespene_Energy’s mission of mitigating landfill emissions. Excited to continue the discussion!
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It's not every day the @Whitehouse touts your business model as a climate solution
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Methane (an energy source, and a more potent greenhouse gas than C02) leaks out of landfills all over the place. Sometimes, it is be captured and used, but often not. Other times, it just leaks out as methane or is flared into CO2 as a mitigation (uneconomically lit on fire).
Adam Wright (@Digital_Ore) profile pictureAdam Wright@Digital_Ore29 Aug 2022
Back to the map of the ~1400 landfills in the US with no gas capture system in place. These cover a total of ~27000 acres. At a cost of $40,000 an acre, in total these systems would cost $1.1 billion to install and $100m in annual maintenance. How best to earn an ROI on this? 🤔
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Troy Cross
@thetrocro29 Aug 2022
Replying to @Digital_Ore
Put it to socially valuable uses… like mining bitcoin.
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Worth a watch. Stranded methane is a free energy source that, when used, reduces dangerous emissions drastically. Flaring—while better than nothing—is wasteful and expensive. nitter.gq/CNBC/status/1563723293…
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@CNBC28 Aug 2022
There are millions of orphaned gas and oil wells leaking methane in the U.S. — and plugging them will cost billions. Watch the full video: cnb.cx/3hemFGR

Why America’s oil and gas wells are a multibillion dollar problem

Scattered throughout the U.S. are millions of old oil and gas wells with no known operator.

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Great Q&A with a Vespene Energy founder @Digital_Ore hosted by @DidierBorel1 from The Swiss Road To Crypto. Tune in to hear Vespene Energy's mission and how #Bitcoin can to turn a liability into an asset. open.spotify.com/episode/1o0… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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This is a map of the 1,404 landfills in the US that do not have methane capture / flaring infrastructure. These landfills hold a total of 1.4 Billion tons of waste. That's the equivalent of 15,600 aircraft carriers that, if placed end to end, would stretch from San Diego to Maine
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Sobering reporting from @lesliehook & @digitalcampbell. This is why demand for solutions to curb methane is only going to grow. Notice how significant emissions are from the waste sector   ft.com/content/9ef195d6-dcc3…
Methane hunters: what explains the surge in the potent greenhouse gas?

Methane hunters: what explains the surge in the potent greenhouse gas?

Levels of the gas are growing at a record rate and natural sources like wetlands are the cause, but scientists don’t know how to curb it

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The world needs a scalable solution, that is deployable today, to reduce our methane emissions and slow climate change, coined a ‘Layer 1’ climate tech solution by our friend @DSBatten Here’s why… 🧵 0/14
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"The Buenos Aires landfill emitted 250,000 annual tonnes - half of the city’s total methane emissions." A single city is emitting 500,000 tonnes of methane annually, that's 42m tonnes of CO2e using 20 year equivalent. Priorities, folks. reuters.com/article/climate-…
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This is the concentration of methane in the atmosphere over time. Methane is 84x worse than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. Imagine if there were a technology that could subsidize the destruction of methane emissions anywhere in the world 🤔
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