Norton's barge uses a 15-story crane to hover above cargo ship smokestacks and capture nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, and particulate matter — the poisons that cause cancer and asthma. In one year of deployment, it offset emissions equivalent to 65 million cars.
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Coming straight from Santa Monica where he had been raising capital, Norton launches into a description of his port-emissions company that immediately startles Monica. The barge carries a 15-story crane — originally built for concrete delivery to high-rise construction sites — that hovers above a ship's smokestack and acts like a massive catalytic converter, transforming nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide into harmless air. Norton notes that while CO2 regulations remain contentious, even the Trump-era EPA regulated NOx and SO2 because they kill people — causing lung cancer and asthma. He cites a figure suggesting California port emissions generate $6.5 billion in annual respiratory health costs, a stat later partially fact-checked by Monica in the show's Fact Check. The kicker: in just one year of deployment, the system captured pollution equivalent to 65 million cars. [1] — Edward Norton "Norton's barge uses a 15-story crane to hover above cargo ship smokestacks and capture nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, and particulate matte…" 04:04
The crane on Norton's emissions-capture barge stands 15 stories high — originally designed for delivering concrete to high-rise construction sites — and hovers above cargo ships' smokestacks to extract toxic emissions.
Norton cited a stat that emissions from California ports drive approximately $6.5 billion in respiratory health costs — including cancer and asthma — in the state every year.
Norton's port-emissions barge company, operational since 2023, captured pollution equivalent to 65 million cars operating for an entire year — in just one year of deployment.
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