BLUE CARBON

The three most important stores of CO2 are the atmosphere, the terrestrial biosphere and the ocean, which are constantly exchanging CO2. The ocean is the largest reservoir of carbon dioxide and essentially determines the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. The solubility of carbon dioxide in water depends on temperature, so in cold areas it is absorbed, and in the tropics it evaporates from sea water.

The Sun is the source of the decarbonization of the Planet.

There are currently many technologies for capturing CO2, but they all require a lot of energy and are not always environmentally neutral. The culmination of our many years of work was the creation of autonomous marine carbon farms using natural mechanisms to sequester CO2.

One of the options uses only solar energy to capture the CO2 that evaporates from seawater.

When the surface of the sea is heated by solar energy, carbon dioxide evaporates from the water, and this process can be used to collect CO2 without consuming energy, but it is important to control and manage temperatures without harming the environment.

The most promising approach is to use phytoplankton to capture CO2 in the marine environment.

The most global CO2 sink is the ocean, covering about 71% of the Earth’s surface, and the most global CO2 sequester and O2 producer is phytoplankton with its ability to photosynthesize.

Phytoplankton, the backbone of the marine food web, together produce at least 50% of all the oxygen in our atmosphere and sequester about 40 Gt of carbon.

Unfortunately, phytoplankton numbers are declining at a rate of about 1% per year due to warming waters and a decrease in available nutrients.

But we have one more chance to help nature.

We have developed a scientifically based solution and created a device that allows you to control photosynthesis in a marine environment that does not have access to sunlight.
This makes it possible to cultivate phytoplankton on an unlimited scale in the aphotic zone or in places with low photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and create conditions for the complete sequestration of CO2 to pre-industrial levels.

Application results:

1. Lowering the level of CO2 in sea water;

2. Increasing pH levels in seawater;

3. Increasing the level of O2 in sea water;

4. CO2 fixation, sedimentation and storage on the seabed for hundreds of years;

5. Significant reduction of anthropogenic emissions into the atmosphere.

Environmental impact:

1. Restoration of biodiversity in the oceans and seas;

2. Elimination of acidification of oceans and seas;

3. Elimination of Dead Zones in the oceans and seas.

Linear solar concentrator

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Hybrid solar concentrator

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Circular linear concentrator

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