TECHNOLOGIES
PRECIPITOR
2-FOR-1 CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL WITH SEQUESTRATION
Prior to the industrial age, the oceans removed more than a quarter of the earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Since then, the colossal accumulation of anthropogenic carbon emissions has been heating the earth and making the oceans more acidic, thus, diminishing the ocean's capacity for carbon removal. Precipitor technology addresses both critical problems with a unique twofold draw-down of airborne carbon dioxide.
2. Reactant dispersal
3. CO2 reaction forms bicarbonate droplets
4. Bicarbonate droplets fall to the ocean
1. Wind energy + seawater produce CO2 reactant
5. Ocean acidity is reduced, restoring CDR capacity
6. Permanent carbon sequestration on seafloor
Wind and seawater make a mild CO2 reactant, the reactant is dispersed as mist from the Precipitor, airborne CO2 combines with the mist, forming bicarbonate droplets. Droplets precipitate to the ocean, buffering surface acidity (Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement – OAE) and restoring capacity for carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Nutrient balance is more normalized for marine life. At life’s end, carbon sinks to the seabed, sequestered for good.
FIRST,
atmospheric CO2 is extracted by means of an ocean-derived alkali aerosol, which is emitted as mist, to form bicarbonate droplets that precipitate into the ocean.
SECOND,
once in the ocean, these bicarbonate droplets reduce the ocean surface acidity and restore its CO2 removal capacity. Like the natural carbon cycle, the process ends with permanent carbon sequestration on the ocean floor.
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