MEDIA COVERAGE
The Globe and Mail: “Can this B.C. company be part of the climate change solution? Bill Gates and others are betting yes“ – September 26, 2019
Quartz: “Carbon Engineering is doubling its CO2-capturing machine even before it’s built” – September 21, 2019
Quartz: “A tiny tweak in California law is creating a strange thing: carbon-negative oil” – July 1, 2019
Forbes: “Capitalism Vs. Climate Change: The Strategic Investor’s Perspective” – June 20, 2019
Forbes: “Capitalism vs Climate Change: The Venture Capitalists’ Perspective” – June 18, 2019
MIT Technology Review: “Why the world’s biggest CO2-sucking plant would be used to … err, dig up more oil?” – May 27, 2019
Reuters: “Proposed U.S. plant to pull CO2 from thin air, use it to pump oil” – May 21, 2019
The New York Times: “Start-Ups Hoping to Fight Climate Change Struggle as Other Tech Firms Cash In” – May 7, 2019
Forbes: “A Historic Inflection Point In Capitalism’s Battle Against Climate Change” – April 26, 2019
The New York Times: “Blamed for Climate Change, Oil Companies Invest in Carbon Removal” – April 7, 2019
Financial Post: “Billionaires back Canadian company to build first ‘negative emissions’ plant” – March 21, 2019
Axios: “Record investment pours into carbon-tech company” – March 21, 2019
Reuters: “BHP buys stake in Canadian firm that extracts emissions from the air” – March 5, 2019
Forbes: “Capitalism Versus Climate Change: The Case Of Carbon Engineering” – January 11, 2019
Financial Times: “Chevron and Occidental invest in carbon removal start-up” – January 9, 2019
NPR: “How One Company Pulls Carbon From The Air, Aiming To Avert A Climate Catastrophe” – December 10, 2018
The Economist: “Aviation: Synthetic fuels could help low-carbon aviation take off” – December 1, 2018
The Economist: “Decarbonised capitalism: From hot air to action” – November 29, 2018
Fast Company: “CO2-sucking factories could anchor a new, clean economy” – October 24, 2018
FORTUNE: “This Technology Offers Some Hope for Net-Zero Carbon Dioxide Emissions” – October 8, 2018
CleanTechnica: “Carbon Engineering Claims Direct Air Capture Of Carbon Costs Less Than $100 Per Ton” – October 5, 2018
Maclean’s: “Can cars go carbon neutral?” – September 20, 2018
VICE News (video): “How CO2 Could Be The Future of Fuel” – September 13, 2018
The Daily Beast: “What if We Captured Carbon From the Air and Made Energy?” – July 2, 2018
Vox: “Sucking carbon out of the air won’t solve climate change” – June 14, 2018
The New York Times: “Sucking CO2 from the air could be a better bargain” – June 13, 2018
BNN Bloomberg (video): “New technology dramatically lowering cost of sucking carbon from air” – June 8, 2018
The Harvard Gazette: “Team plans industrial-scale carbon removal plant” – June 7, 2018
Boston Globe: “Researchers say they can capture carbon dioxide from the air — and recycle it back into fuel” – June 7, 2018
Ars Technica: “Machines that suck CO2 from the air might be cheaper than we thought” – June 7, 2018
Nature: “Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought” – June 7, 2018
BBC: “Key ‘step forward’ in cutting cost of removing CO2 from air” – June 7, 2018
Financial Post: “Looking to the sky: B.C. company says it is sucking carbon from air, making fuel” – June 7, 2018
The Atlantic: “Climate Change Can Be Stopped by Turning Air Into Gasoline” – June 7, 2018
National Geographic: “This Gasoline Is Made of Carbon Sucked From the Air” – June 7, 2018
Bloomberg: “Carbon Capture, the vacuum cleaner the climate needs” – May 17, 2018
Bloomberg: “Pioneers of Carbon Dioxide Removal See Boon for Renewables” – April 24, 2018
The Guardian: “How Bill Gates aims to clean up the planet” – February 04, 2018
Wired: “The Dirty Secret of the World’s Plan to Avert Climate Disaster” – December 10, 2017
The New Yorker: “Can Carbon-Dioxide Removal Save the World?” – November 20, 2017
Economist: “Greenhouse gases must be scrubbed from the air” – November 16, 2017
Forbes: “Extracting Fuel From Thin Air” – February 16, 2016
The Globe and Mail: “Could this plant hold the key to generating fuel from CO2 emissions?” – January 1, 2016
CBC News: “Calgary company ready to capture carbon in Squamish ‘pilot plant’” – October 13, 2015
MIT Technology Review: “Test Facility Begins Capturing Carbon From Air” – October 9, 2015
The Motley Fool: “1 Climate Change Technology Company That Could Lead to a Green Future, and It’s Not Solar” – August 8, 2015
Yahoo! News: “How global warming might be turned into fuel for your car” – July 24, 2015
The Guardian: “Startups have figured out how to remove carbon from air. Will anyone pay them to do it?” – July 14, 2015
The New York Times: “Pulling Carbon Dioxide Out of Thin Air” – Jan 05, 2013
Yale Environment 360: “Rethinking Carbon Dioxide: From a Pollutant to an Asset” – Feb 23, 2012
FORTUNE: “The business of cooling the planet” – Oct 07, 2011
The Harvard Crimson: “Harvard Professor Designing Air Capture Plant” – Sept 25, 2011
NPR: “This Machine Can Suck Carbon Out Of The Air” – Sept 19, 2011
Economist: “Lift Off” – Nov 4, 2010
Nature News: “Sucking carbon out of the air” – Dec 17, 2008
SELECTED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
A Process for Capturing CO2 from the Atmosphere
(Paper by David W. Keith, Geoffrey Holmes, David St. Angelo, and Kenton Heidel, Joule Journal, 2018)
Carbon Engineering
(Harvard Business School Case Study, Joseph B. Lassiter III and Sid Misra, Oct2013)
Outdoor Prototype Results for Direct Atmospheric Capture of Carbon Dioxide
(Paper by CE Team presented at GHGT-11, published in Energy Procedia, 2013)
An air-liquid contactor for large-scale capture of CO2 from air
(Paper by Geoffrey Holmes and David Keith, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2012)
CE Outdoor Contactor Pilot: 2011 Results Summary
(Posted Dec 2011)
CE’s Comments on the APS Direct Air Capture Report
(Updated June 2011)
CE’s Comments on the APS Direct Air Capture Report
APS Report: Direct Air Capture of CO2 with Chemicals – Final, Original Version, Released May 09 2011
APS Report: Direct Air Capture of CO2 with Chemicals – Final, Revised/Re-formatted Version, Posted June 01 2011
Why Capture CO2 From the Atmosphere?
(Paper by David Keith in Science, 325: 1654-1655)
Capturing CO2 from the atmosphere: rationale and process design considerations
(Book chapter by David Keith, Kenton Heidel, and Robert Cherry in Geo-Engineering Climate Change: Environmental necessity or Pandora’s box? B. Launder and M. Thompson, editors. Cambridge University Press, p. 107-126)
Additional research papers on David Keith’s Website.
DOCUMENTS
PATENTS
CE owned patents and pending patent applications:
| Application/patent number | Title | Related products and services |
|---|---|---|
| 9,095,813 | Carbon dioxide capture method and facility | Air contactor system |
| 14/815,661 | Continuation of patent – Carbon dioxide capture method and facility | Air contactor componentry |
| 8,119,091 | Carbon dioxide capture | Air contactor system with alternate chemistry |
| 8,728,428 | Recovering a caustic solution via calcium carbonate crystal aggregates | Direct Air Capture system |
| 9,975,100 | Continuation of patent – Recovering a caustic solution via calcium carbonate crystal aggregates | Direct Air Capture system componentry |
| 8,871,008 | Target gas capture | Alternate Direct Air Capture system |
| 9,637,393 | Recovering a caustic solution via calcium carbonate crystal aggregates | Pellet Reactor and Slaker systems |
| 15/622,883 | Capturing carbon dioxide | Modified air contactor componentry including additional drift, nozzle and basin technology |
| 15/591,324 | High temperature hydrator | Slaking componentry |
| CA2017051581 | Method and system for synthesizing fuel from dilute carbon dioxide source | AIR TO FUELSTM technology |
Patents to which CE has full license rights in our field:
| Application/patent number | Title | Related products and services |
|---|---|---|
| 8,574,354 | Reducing the carbon emissions intensity of a fuel | Low carbon intensity EOR system with CE’s air contactor technology |
| 9,159,105 | Continuation of patent – Reducing the carbon emissions intensity of a fuel | Low carbon intensity EOR system with industrially sourced CO2 |
| 15/022,163 | Reducing the carbon emissions intensity of a fuel | Low carbon intensity EOR system with CO2 supplied by a biomass source with carbon fixed from the atmosphere by photosynthesis |
