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How do we make carbon capture scalable?
The world produces 41 billion tonnes of CO2 a year. Trees absorb CO2 and make oxygen for us. There are photosynthetic microbes that live in our oceans called cyanobacteria that can also perform this same process but with 50-80x better areal efficiency. These organisms are responsible for making 30-50% of all the oxygen in the world.
In 2020, researchers began using genetic engineering tools to make a recently discovered very fast-growing version of this bacteria capture CO2 even faster than ever before.
Why capture CO2 with cyanobacteria?
Powered by sunlight
Earth receives more than 3.8 million Exajoules of energy from the sun every year. Photosynthesis harnesses the most abundant energy source we have, to perform the energetically expensive process of turning CO2 into compounds of value.
Low cost of capture
By engineering the cell to co-produce high value products using captured carbon, CyanoCapture is able to make the overall cost of durable carbon sequestration radically low in cost for the user.
On site sequestration
CO2 can be sequestered as bio-graphite directly at the point of capture using our process, eliminating the need for CO2 transportation and further energy-intensive compression processes to generate the liquified CO2 required for geological injection off-site.
