Climate technology startup Clairity Technology proclaimed that it has elevated $6.75 million in a seed round meant at scaling its Direct Air Capture (DAC) carbon elimination solution.
Direct Air Capture technology, listed by the IEA as a significant carbon removal option in the evolution to a net-zero energy system, extracts carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere for practice as a raw material or eternally removed when combined with storage. As per the landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate change mitigation research directed last year, situations that limit warming to 1.5°C comprise carbon dioxide removal approaches scaling to billions of loads of removal annually over the coming decades, with Direct Air Capture positioned to potentially account for a significant portion of the total.
Originating in 2022 by Glen Meyerowitz, California-based Clairity has established a system for seizing dilute carbon dioxide that requires far less infrastructure and energy than Direct Air Capture focused on pure carbon dioxide, using readily available materials and procedures that are more energy and capital efficient. The corporation’s solution uses a solid sorbent method, covering honeycomb monoliths of carbonate salts, which are rich and durable – permitting them to be used over several cycles – which binds carbon dioxide into the salts’ crystalline structure for gathering and concentration. According to Clarity, the procedure uses the company’s reactors, which use old-style, cost-effective building resources, avoiding the requirement for huge amounts of concrete and steel essential for high-purity systems.
The firm created a process with Carbon Built, a corporation whose technology leverages atmospheric carbon dioxide for the creation of concrete goods that aim to decrease embodied carbon by 70% to 100%. Clairity’s procedure captured carbon dioxide and fed it straight into Carbon Built’s procedure, where it chemically responded with Carbon Built’s low-carbon binder and became eternally sequestered in the finished concrete.
In a LinkedIn post proclaiming the seed round, Clarity Technology Chief Executive Officer and Founder Glen Meyerowitz stated that The climate crisis is severe and the deteriorating impacts of climate change can be seen all over the place. We need resolutions that can be applied and scaled today to alleviate the nastiest effects of climate change in the upcoming years.
