Etosha Cave Explained

Etosha N. Cave
Alma Mater:Olin College
Stanford University
Workplaces:Twelve, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Birth Place:Houston, Texas, U.S.

Etosha R. Cave is an American mechanical engineer based in Berkeley, California. She is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Twelve, a startup that recycles carbon dioxide.

Early life and education

Cave grew up in Houston, Texas, where she became interested in recycling oil and gas. During high school she joined the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).[1] She studied at Olin College, and was in the first graduating year in 2006.[2] She held a NSBE Scholarship. After graduating, she worked at the McMurdo Station, where she serviced HVAC systems and built the laser diode for future NASA missions. Eventually Cave returned to her studies, and started a doctoral program at Stanford University working under the supervision of Thomas F. Jaramillo.[3] During her PhD she worked on electrochemical approaches that could be used to convert carbon dioxide and water into useful plastics and household cleaners.[4] She built a gas analysis system that could determine the composition of electrochemical reactions in realtime and earned her PhD in 2015.

Research and career

While at Stanford University, Cave co-founded Twelve, a startup that uses metal catalysts to recycle carbon dioxide.[5] [6] [7] At first, Twelve struggled to raise money from the venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.[8] Today Twelve is based at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and has secured several academic partnerships including funding from the National Science Foundation and I-Corps program.[9]

Cave ultimately hopes that they will be able to make diesel fuel from recycled carbon dioxide and water.[10] Cave discussed the idea at TEDx Stanford, where she explained the recycled carbon dioxide could reduce our carbon footprint as well as supporting future space travel. Twelve was awarded the Forbes magazine Change the World Award and was selected for the Advanced Manufacturing Office Cyclotron Road program in 2016.[11] [12] [13] She was a finalist for the Carbon Xprize in 2018.

Awards and honours

Her awards and honours include;

She has spoken at the Aspen Ideas Festival and been part of Science Foo Camp.[19] She is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.[20] Cave is a member of the advisory board of the Berkeley Startup Cluster.[21]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Can California's Carbon Queen Recycle Pollution?. Stone. Zara. OZY. en. 2019-07-16.
  2. Web site: Designing with Purpose. 2017-06-20. Olin College of Engineering – Admissions Microsite. en. 2019-07-16.
  3. Web site: Etosha Cave. Empower Innovation. 2019-07-16.
  4. Web site: Watch: Etosha Cave speaks at TEDx Stanford. Cyclotron Road. en-US. 2019-07-16.
  5. Web site: Opus 12. Elemental Excelerator. en-US. 2019-07-16.
  6. Web site: About. Opus 12: A profitable solution to carbon emissions. en-US. 2019-07-16.
  7. Web site: Student teams win grants to commercialize Stanford energy inventions. EurekAlert!. en. 2019-07-16.
  8. News: Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model. Satell. Greg. 2018-04-05. Harvard Business Review. 2019-07-16. 0017-8012.
  9. Web site: The Lens Crafter: Tabitha Soren. 2017-11-13. 7x7 Bay Area. en. 2019-07-16.
  10. Web site: Etosha Cave. University. © Stanford. Stanford. 2017-08-14. Stanford School of Engineering. en. 2019-07-16. California 94305.
  11. Web site: Ashton Kutcher, Top VCs Pick Winners Of For-Profit Change The World Competition. Tindera. Michela. Forbes. en. 2019-07-16.
  12. Web site: Cyclotron Road’s Etosha Cave Recognized as one of Vanity Fair’s 26 Women of Color Diversifying Entrepreneurship. Energy.gov. en. 2019-07-16.
  13. News: An Incubator for Innovation. Markoff. John. 2015-02-09. The New York Times. 2019-07-16. en-US. 0362-4331.
  14. Web site: Etosha Cave. www.echoinggreen.org. en. 2019-07-16.
  15. Web site: Eight Innovators to Watch in 2017. Rieland. Randy. Smithsonian. en. 2019-07-16.
  16. Web site: Meet the people fixing your world. Grist. en. 2019-07-16.
  17. Web site: 26 Women of Color Diversifying Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley, Media, and Beyond. Vanity Fair. en. 2019-07-16.
  18. Web site: Lab’s Etosha Cave Featured in Vanity Fair Entrepreneurship Article. today.lbl.gov. 2019-07-16.
  19. Web site: Etosha Cave Aspen Ideas. Aspen Ideas Festival. en-US. 2019-07-16.
  20. Web site: Etosha Cave. 2019-07-11. www.aiche.org. en. 2019-07-16.
  21. Web site: Advisory Group. 2014-11-06. Berkeley Startup Cluster. en-US. 2019-07-16.

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