Alonso Frias
Samantha Frias met her husband, Alonso, back in 2003. It was at a Halloween party. Alonso wasn t dressed up, but Samantha wore a Morticia Addams costume. She said they were inseparable from the very start. We were never apart, she said. We were together wherever we went. The only time we were apart was when he was at work. And sometimes I was at work with him. After working for a concrete company in Casper, Wyoming for about 20 years, Alonso had started his own business: Frias Concrete and Stone Construction. His oldest son, Santana Gould, said his dad had this incredible attention to detail.
Wyoming has spent years doubling down on coal by embracing a technology called carbon capture. One of the state-led efforts to build up the burgeoning tech came through a competition called the NRG COSIA Carbon X-PRIZE - a $20 million competition that s set to finish April 19. The XPRIZE has officially been in motion since 2015. In 2018, our energy and natural resources reporter Cooper McKim began to follow the competition.
Through the years, he s put together an in-depth series called
Carbon Valley starting with this episode you re about hear. Listen to more episodes by subscribing to Carbon Valley wherever you get your podcasts.