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The world is facing a climate emergency. Use of fossil fuel and other sources of greenhouse gas emissions are changing the climate in unprecedented and sometimes irreversible ways. We can collectively meet the Paris Agreement’s temperature goals and slow down global warming if countries achieve their net zero emission targets by 2050. Scenarios indicate that Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) which captures CO2 and stores it away permanently, will be critical to meeting the world’s climate objectives. GreenCap Solutions is using direct air capture for a brighter future.
When removing the CO2 from the atmosphere, it immediately stops contributing to global warming. DACCS is one of the few technology options available to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. It is the only feasible way to compensate for emissions from mobile sources such as cars, trucks and airplanes. These sources represent more than 60% of total emissions today, and are likely to increase as the population grows. One can permanently store or utilize the CO2 that has been removed in food production, fuel production, building materials, and other products that contain CO2.
Our purpose is to enable a clean, sustainable, net zero emission world. GreenCap Solutions is a Norwegian environmental technology provider of large-scale CO2 removal solutions. We apply DAC technology to industrial applications and to greenhouse systems, resulting in increased yield, greater resource efficiency and year-round production. GreenCap Solutions’ patented technology solves two of the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges: rising greenhouse gas emissions and resource scarcity. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Sandnes, Norway.
While most DAC providers use technologies involving chemicals, GreenCap Solutions uses a non-chemical approach to capturing CO2. Specifically, our process uses a microporous mineral called zeolite, which has tiny pores to lock in the CO2 molecules. Zeolites occur naturally, but are also produced industrially. Our DAC technology uses high-capacity fans to draw air from the atmosphere. The air is dehumidified before it is sent through a zeolite bed that adsorbs the CO2 on the surface area of its pores. This clean air is then released from the capture unit back into the atmosphere. Now the zeolite bed is saturated with CO2 that can be recovered by applying energy in the form of heat to release it.
This is an energy-demanding process, which we have resolved by using waste energy and heat storage. The CO2 gas is cooled and returned to its liquid state so that it can be transported to a permanent storage site or used in other industrial applications.
The result? A cost and energy-efficient technology that can remove CO2 from the atmosphere at scale, anywhere in the world.
GreenCap Solutions’ DAC technology is used to grow vegetables in greenhouses. Proven, our technology increases crop yields by up to 40% by capturing CO2 from the air outside the greenhouse and releasing regular amounts inside. Simultaneously, we eliminate the use of fossil fuels for heating and CO2 for crop growth. In addition, our technology can capture emissions from stationary point sources of CO2, including fossil fuel power plants and cement factories that emit up to 4% CO2.