DEN Talks: Ariel Smith

On this episode of the YPE Podcast, we bring you the May edition of DEN Talks: Discussions on Energy and Networking. Ariel Smith, Director of Sales at ClearTrace, discusses the current state of carbon capture technologies and answers audience questions about the industry. Show notes: 00:19 Ariel's background and role at Cleartrace.io 02:45 The different scopes of greenhouse gas emissions; carbon accounting & carbon offsets 07:48 Carbon capture and decarbonization in the marketplace 16:37 The benefits of granular carbon accounting 18:36 Why isn't nuclear energy included in the credits? 21:07 How reliable are carbon accounting data? Should we be focusing on reducing energy demand, instead of carbon capture? 31:17 How can crude oil producers be influenced to limit emissions? Ariel's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arielexa/ How It Works - Carbon Capture and Storage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyPI20h9kx0 Attend the next YPE event: https://ypenergy.org/denver/events/month/