NeoCarbon

NeoCarbon captures carbon at scale leveraging waste heat and existing infrastructure in the form of cooling towers. Because of the very low fraction of CO2 in the ambient air (about 0.04%), traditional Direct Air Capture (DAC) installations require extremely large and costly infrastructure with high heat requirements for the chemical process required for the capture of CO2 along with gigantic fans, driving costs even further up. However, there are already millions of equipment operating in the EU with huge inherent waste heat and processing vast amounts of ambient air: cooling towers. Our process leverages those industrial machines in combination with a unique reactor design to drastically cut down costs and deployment speed for DAC. At full scale, our technology has the potential to capture >1.3 Gt of CO2 per year, a significant share of the necessary amount to avoid drastic social and economical damages to our society.