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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/2\/22951332\/aether-diamonds-carbon-capture-air-climate-change<\/a>
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Luxury diamond producers are usually way more focused on sparkly chunks of rock in the ground than carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere. But one diamond company is trying to recast the gems as a crucial lever in the climate fight by growing diamonds from carbon sucked straight out of the air. <\/p>\n

That company is Aether<\/a>, a lab-grown diamond startup that just raised $18 million in a funding round led by Helena<\/a>, a \u201cglobal problem solving organization\u201d that includes<\/a> both a for-profit investment and nonprofit action arm. Lab-grown diamonds are a hot market, and there\u2019s no shortage of companies claiming that these synthetic gems are more ethical or environmentally friendly<\/a> than their Earth-mined counterparts \u2014 and there are even other companies<\/a> also focused on making diamonds using carbon dioxide from the air. But Aether\u2019s claims are backed up by some ambitious facts about its operation: not only is it making diamonds in a process powered by clean energy \u2014 it\u2019s pulling an additional 20 metric tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere per carat it produces.<\/p>\n

While the cost of capturing all that carbon would be high for a company selling, say, cement, it\u2019s one the luxury jewelry brand says it can easily absorb. And the world needs businesses that can pay for so-called direct air capture and still generate a profit if the nascent technology is ever going to make a dent in climate change.<\/p>\n

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