The Skinny About Cleaning the Air

Vince Lombardi, the most famous American Football coach, started training camp for his seasoned professionals with the same lesson each year:  “Gentlemen, this is a football.”

So let’s get down to basics.  

We have a simple problem statement:  Having burned 2.3 trillion tonnes of fossil fuel since 1750, concentrations of ambient Green House Gasses (GHG) are high enough to rapidly heat our planet.   

Following the overused bathtub analogy, there are two ways to get the GHG out of the air:  We can turn the faucet off, which equates to ending the process of burning fuels.  AND we can open the drain, which is the equivalent of taking GHG out of the air.  This second process, taking GHG out of the air, is sometimes called Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) 

CDR itself also has two parts, including “Capture” and “Storage”.  The “Capture” part is about identifying the tiny minority of carbon dioxide molecules of carbon dioxide in the air (co2), and removing the carbon atom from them.  The “Storage” part is putting the carbon atoms away so that they don’t find their way back into the air for a long time. As we shall see, all CDR pathways involve “Capture” and “Storage”

DuraVault serves CDR producers by helping them deliver durable CDR storage.  We’ve been at it for three years and currently focus on the Direct Biomass Storage pathway.  Hope to see you around!