View from the Office.

Met Vidar Lie for drinks at The Landing shortly after he flew into Newark Airport from Norway. Vidar had an IPA; I had a Negroni.

The Landing is a restaurant tucked into the second floor lobby at One Penn, an office building across from Madison Square Garden. It’s a gem of a place, not crowded, with free and fast wifi, comfy sofas and giant wall screen TVs.

Vidar is a project and engineering manager at Equinor, formed from Statoil, the former Norwegian state-oil company. He was visiting for work.

Vidar told me about two big projects the company has been working on and the scope of both blew my mind.

Equinor’s Empire Wind project is building a huge wind farm offshore in New York. It has a huge facility in Brooklyn to stage turbines that I knew nothing about.

Empire Wind’s initial stage will power 500,000 homes, part of an effort to shift more production to clean energy.

Equinor also has a project near Bergen to capture carbon emissions and store them in a natural vault 2,500 meters below the ocean floor.

Let me say it again because it sounds so insane. They collect industrial emissions that would have otherwise been spewed into the atmosphere and transport them via ship to the North Sea and inject them into geological formations for permanent storage.

It’s still a pilot project, but it has the ambitious goal of significantly decarbonizing European industries.

The project is a partnership with Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies.

Every day I’m reminded that there are so many big, inspirational things going on all over the world that we don’t know about. Even in your own backyard.