Publication: Time
UCLA Expert: Dante Simonetti: Associate Professor, UCLA School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Synopsis: Equatic, a California-based company, signed an agreement to remove 62,000 tons of carbon on behalf of aerospace giant Boeing earlier this summer.
UCLA News: Originally spun out of experiments at Simonetti’s UCLA laboratory, its technology combines principles from direct air carbon capture, with the approach of increasing the ocean’s alkalinity (the ocean becomes more acidic as it absorbs CO2, while adding alkalinity, in theory, allows the ocean to absorb more carbon). The pilot plant can remove about 100 kilograms of CO2 from the atmosphere every day, which is equivalent to the daily emissions of about eight automobiles. They plan to soon build a larger one that could process 100 times more carbon.
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