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A Sustainable Approach to Direct Air Capture with Noah McQueen, Head of Research & Co-Founder of Heirloom

Hardware to Save a Planet

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Using Calcium Carbonate as a Sponge?

This is a natural process that occurs naturally, but you've found a way to speed it up. It's one of our key technical challenges maintaining the high CO2 upgrade uptake rate through our material. That's how we give it superpowers and it's kind of like the bread and butter of what our process is on the carbonation side. So we combine geo chemistry with the knowledge of equipment design and industrial automation in order to control how these minerals take up CO2 from the atmosphere.

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