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Innovating in a silo

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I think part of CST's challenge might be that there isn't enough knowledge sharing happening across provincial, state and country borders. Maybe that's for competetive reasons but from my perspective, the Ontario government is leaving the Quebec government in the dust, right now by coughing up serious $$. For example, Ontario just announced "GreenON", featuring an initial $74M in projects to reduce green house gases, one of which is a $10M project for Resolute Forest in Thunder Bay (i.e. the same Resolute that owns St. Felicien pulp mill). The solutions being explored are not necessarily from Ontario companies. E.g. CarbonCure is mentioned in another $10M project. Yet, Quebec's Carbicrete may have the better product in the end. The link to the GreenON details is below. 

Consider that CST is driving VCQ as a provincial project - i.e. they are playing a leadership role in something that their own provincial government could be playing a stronger lead in. It's too early to tell if that's a good thing or not.. but clearly the Quebec government is slower to respond with real $$ to continue to support CST because the $2Million CST recently received was from the federal body "Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions" which is charged with promoting economic expansion in Quebec. 

Quartz has started publishing a series of 8 weekly reports on innovative Carbon Capture technologies. In my view, this is a test of whether enough (or ANY) word is getting out to the world about Co2 Solutions. Quartz's latest article (link below) is about Ethan Novek. Yup, the teenager behind Innovator Energy with the apparent (unproven?) $8 Co2 capture solution who now holds 12 patents of his own and who is also competing for the Carbon XPRIZE. Hmm.Their next articles will likely cover everything from Allam Cycle to BECCS which is absolutely fair, but CST's Enzymatic technology should also be mentioned as part of the portfolio of Carbon Capture options.

So, one has to wonder, either CST's technology is completely bogus which I have chosen not to believe, or the world is favouring other business personalities and companies because the either have no idea about CST, or the story isn't as sexy. 

Here are the articles I mentioned above. Thoughts?
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GreenON Announcement: https://news.ontario.ca/ene/en/2017/12/new-program-supporting-low-carbon-innovation-for-industry.html

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Quartz Article - Ethan Novek - https://qz.com/1132303/the-teenager-inventor-who-could-change-the-way-the-world-fights-climate-change/