Northern Lights is the first project in the world allowing industrial companies to transport and sequester their CO2 emissions. The project is owned in equal shares by TotalEnergies, Equinor and Shell.

The water naturally forms a branching network of openings within the structure as it reacts with cement, and the carbon migrates into these spaces to make wire-like structures within the hardened cement.

fractal-like structure, with larger branches sprouting smaller branches, and those sprouting even smaller branchlets

existing batteries are too expensive and mostly rely on materials such as lithium, whose supply is limited,

nanocarbon-black-doped concrete

upercapacitors can be charged and discharged much more rapidly than batteries

Since the concrete would retain its strength, a house with a foundation made of this material could store a day’s worth of energy produced by solar panels or windmills

working up to a 45-cubic-meter version to demonstrate its ability to store a house-worth of power.

Heirloom Carbon

Heirloom Carbon,

315,000 metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere over 10 years. For a sense of scale, that’s equivalent to about 75% of the carbon Microsoft emitted in 2022

$200 million, “based on market prices,” or $635 per ton

The process starts with limestone, which is formed from the detritus of corals, clams, and other sea creatures that use the dissolved carbon and calcium in the ocean to build their shells. Heirloom grinds up limestone and does something that humans have been doing for thousands of years — heats it in a kiln. This loosens carbon dioxide from the rock, leaving behind calcium oxide