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it started with Lucy
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after reading a newspaper article about the vast amount of carbon flowing into the air from landfills, power plants, and cows like Lucy, we thought:
there must be some way to use greenhouse gas as a resource.
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it turns out, there is.
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it started with Lucy
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after reading a newspaper article about the vast amount of carbon flowing into the air from landfills, power plants, and cows like Lucy, we thought:
there must be some way to use greenhouse gas as a resource.
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it turns out, there is.
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It started in 2003 with a question:
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what if we could use the technology in nature
to turn greenhouse gas into high-value materials?
For the next 10 years,
we worked to answer that question.
Our first objective:
make it scalable.
​Early on, we discovered that microorganisms from the ocean use air and greenhouse gas to make a material every day called PHB:
a meltable energy storage material that can be molded into shapes, fibers, and sheet.
The problem was: the technology did not yet exist to make this process viable on land.
JOURNEY
Over time, we built,
we struggled...and we learned.
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With incremental progress, we discovered how
to make the technology work.
Along the way, as we saw greenhouse gas transformed into a beautiful material, certain things became evident:
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​the future is not yet written
true strength is mutually constructive
​there is unique good and profound potential in everything
DISCOVERY
After 10 years of research, a new material was born.
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We call it AirCarbon.
BREAKTHROUGH
​In August 2013, we ran the technology
at large scale for the first time:
using microorganisms from nature to make PHB from
air and methane-based greenhouse gas dissolved in saltwater.
​Our mission now:
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change at scale.
MISSION
Our vision is to harness greenhouse gas as a resource to create AirCarbon at global scale
to help solve plastics pollution and climate change.
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To achieve this, we have assembled an extraordinary group of people:
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people who believe things can and must change.
PEOPLE
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