Our Global Network of Bioreactors

By deploying our small Direct Air Capture (DAC Everywhere™) bioreactors in cities and towns around the world, we can take the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide (CO₂) out of the air as if we had planted thousands of forests around the world.

Climate change can seem like an insurmountable problem without a solution. The production of global greenhouse gases is exceedingly difficult to tackle; there are too many competing interests and too many stakeholders, making the problem appear impossible to fix. The scale of the problem is unprecedented and the challenges we face in attempting to solve this problem can be extremely daunting. However, without a viable global solution to fix this problem, we face a more uncertain and potentially catastrophic future. 

Our efforts to battle climate change thus far have been inadequate, disjointed and inefficient at best.  

We need a paradigm shift – 

Thinking Big by Building Small

If we change our perspective to solving this global problem at a targeted, localized level the problem no longer seems insurmountable, but solvable, with a solution that is both viable and achievable in a relatively short period of time.

STRATEGIC DEPLOYMENT: IN CITIES EVERYWHERE

We plan to tackle the problem of climate change at its source – in cities across the globe.

“According to UN Habitat, cities consume 78 per cent of the world’s energy and produce more than 60 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions.” 

Generating power | United Nations 

A recent scientific study done at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) found that 18% of all global emissions come from just 100 cities.   

New study estimates the carbon footprints of 13,000 cities (sciencenorway.no) 

Our solution is simple. Since cities and urban areas are major producers of global greenhouse gas emissions, we plan to tackle the problem of climate change at its source. 

However, many of the current Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) projects are being built in areas where land is cheap and available, areas where little CO₂ is being generated. These projects are resource intensive, requiring large amounts of capital and land, and years of planning. Unfortunately, even after billions of dollars have been spent on such projects, having the largest DAC facility in the world still does little to address the problem of climate change on a global scale.

We believe there is a better way forward to addressing this problem at its core: thinking big by building small.

We believe there is a better way forward to addressing this problem at its core: thinking big by building small.

By deploying our small DAC units everywhere all at once, simultaneously and concurrently, targeting the areas with the highest emissions of CO₂ (urban areas) and deploying our bioreactors at thousands of these sites around the world, we can create a network of bioreactors spanning the globe.  We can address the problem of climate change on a systemic level; our network of bioreactors will meaningfully impact the levels of CO₂ in our air that have been skyrocketing since the Industrial Revolution.  At full global deployment, this network will dramatically reduce the CO₂ levels in our air globally with the goal of creating a global environment with negative emissions, a process that would remove more CO₂ from our air than we are generating.

We can do this.

Together, working with local governments and stakeholders around the world,

we can solve climate change. 

Building a Global Network of Photobioreactors

We will not be selling our bioreactors to the public or to anyone else.  Our network of bioreactors will be built, owned and operated by The Canterhill Carbon Project.  Our goal is to build, deploy, and maintain our bioreactors for the sole purpose of removing carbon dioxide from the air.

We will be working closely with local governments in cities, town and municipalities around the world to ensure optimal placement of each bioreactor. We envision our bioreactors placed on public and private buildings, rooftops, billboards throughout cities and on heavily traveled transportation routes. We plan to utilize and capitalize on existing infrastructure in order to create a network that will yield optimal results in its rate of CO₂ capture, while ensuring we can build and deploy our network safely and quickly in order to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.

We will be creating partnerships with local governments, and their national counterparts, as well as international governing bodies such as the United Nations, in order to build out this network as effectively, efficiently and quickly as possible.

Strategic deployment: urban integration

How to Best Utilize Existing Infrastructure

Regarding how and where our bioreactors are installed, the possibilities are endless. For efficiency, we plan to piggyback on existing infrastructure as much as possible. Our units, for example, could be placed inside illuminated advertisements at bus stops all over the city. We could be placed on the backs of billboards, on top of buildings, and under bridges. The possibilities are truly endless, and we would work closely with each municipality to determine the best placement for each unit.

BLENDING SEAMLESSLY INTO URBAN LANDSCAPES

a safe solution to the climate crisis

A Solution Based on a Natural Process: Photosynthesis

Climate change is a result of the unchecked anthropogenically generated greenhouse gas emissions that have been released into our atmosphere for many decades. It was human activity that caused the problem; it is human innovation that will need to get us out of it. Unfortunately, the world’s response to climate change is currently fragmented and wholly inadequate.   While there are numerous attempts to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, it is very apparent that what the world is doing in response to this crisis is not enough. 

As the globe grapples with a way forward out of this crisis, attempts are being made to find ways to mitigate the symptoms of climate change, one of the symptoms being global warming itself. While our planet’s surface temperature continues to increase, it is becoming more and more difficult to rein in the effects of global warming, creating the spiraling crisis we are now contending with as a global community. As a result of this growing sense of urgency, some scientists are finding new and innovative ways to address the global warming issue in a manner that is raising some alarm bells. 

A recent Wall Street Journal headline speaks for itself: “Scientists Resort to Once-Unthinkable Solutions to Cool the Planet”. The first paragraph goes on to say: “Dumping chemicals in the ocean? Spraying saltwater into clouds? Injecting reflective particles into the sky? Scientists are resorting to once unthinkable techniques to cool the planet because global efforts to check greenhouse gas emissions are failing.” These are innovative solutions, to be sure, but as they are meant to have a direct impact on our environment, by design, there may be unforeseen consequences to such innovative and novel experiments. Furthermore, these potential solutions for global warming fail to address the root cause of the problem.

While the climate change problem needs to be urgently addressed, we should proceed in the safest way possible.  Utilizing proven technologies, our solution is a safe, no-risk solution that addresses not only the symptoms of climate change (i.e.- global warming), but the root cause: our skyrocketing CO₂ levels. Our only aim is to reduce global CO₂ levels, and we are doing this through the natural process of photosynthesis. Each unit is a completely closed system; the only impact on the environment will be a reduction in CO₂ levels in the area in which the unit is placed. Even if that closed system is breached, there is no possibility of adverse or unforeseen consequences, as algae is a naturally occurring organism that we will be breeding for the specific purpose of capturing and removing CO₂ from high-emitting urban areas.

To quote again the Wall Street Journal article referenced above, “Scientists are resorting to once unthinkable techniques to cool the planet because global efforts to check greenhouse gas emissions are failing.” Needless to say, in our quest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reach net zero, failure is not an option.  The urgency of the situation will only grow by the day, and last year, 2023, had the highest rate of global CO₂ emissions ever recorded.

CO2 Emissions in 2023 – Analysis – IEA 

Our project has the real potential to reverse the catastrophic and continual increase in global CO₂ emissions.  Failure is not an option as the planet literally depends on our collective actions in the coming decades; we must act quickly, utilizing proven technologies and safe solutions to reach our net zero goals; and we must act now.

A Highly Controlled Solution

with measurable and verifiable results

The beauty of our solution is that it is completely controllable, down to the micro level; each unit can be turned on and off at any time. Should there be a need to scale back our efforts, we would be able to do so on a very localized basis; likewise, should there be a need to scale up our efforts, we could do so on a localized, national or international level as well.

We will be constantly monitoring our CO₂ removal numbers in relation to the needs of the local area we are deployed in, as well as the overall national and global efforts to reach net zero.  This allows for much more control over CO₂ levels locally, nationally and internationally, making the climate crisis more manageable with an effective and efficient solution that will have a verifiable impact on our global carbon footprint.

dac carbon dioxide removal

What We Are Doing

• We are creating a decentralized CO₂ removal network on a global scale by using numerous smaller DAC bioreactors (approximately the size of a mini refrigerator) spread out over 1,000s of different locations.
• We are working towards miniaturizing our bioreactors to the size of a pizza box while simultaneously increasing its ability to capture more CO₂ from the air.

What They Are Doing

• Others are building large scale and very expensive carbon dioxide removal projects in single locations often in rural areas where real estate for such projects is available and relatively inexpensive.
• What they are doing is done from one location which provides very limited and localized benefits and is not a truly global solution to a global problem. (Our solution is global by design and practically unlimited in scope as we scale up.)

Effective Carbon Removal Must Be:

• Measurable ✔️
• Verifiable ✔️
• Scalable ✔️
• Affordable ✔️
• Permanent ✔️
• Additive ✔️ (something that does not occur naturally or will happen anyway)