Carbon removed in Vegas, stays in Vegas - announcing Project Juniper!
We are excited to announce Project Juniper - North America’s first integrated direct air capture (DAC) and ex-situ mineralization plant! Project Juniper removes atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) with our novel, low-cost sorbent material and then durably sequesters that CO2 into a carbonated material, where it will remain stored for thousands of years. Located in Southern Nevada, our DAC process is not only carbon negative but also water positive, generating water which can be provided to water-stressed communities near the project site.
We founded Clairity in 2022 because of the urgency that is required to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. Trillions of tons of greenhouse gases have been emitted into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution, and tens of billions of tons more are emitted each year. As a former SpaceX engineer with a passion for building, this sense of urgency got me into the lab and then to our manufacturing shop. Over the last 2.5 years, our small but dedicated team of less than a dozen engineers and scientists has tested and characterized hundreds of sorbents and scaled our process up over 100,000x in size to make Project Juniper a reality!
Project Juniper uses our novel, alkali carbonate sorbent to capture CO2 from the atmosphere. This sorbent is low-cost, stable, abundant, and requires low-energy to regenerate. These are all critical characteristics that make our process stand out from the competition, and make it uniquely scalable. Project Juniper also sequesters the CO2 into carbonated materials once we capture that CO2 from the atmosphere. Our team has developed the world’s largest ex-situ mineralization process, which can take a wide range of feedstock materials, including waste materials that otherwise would have gone to a landfill, and convert them into value-add products. The use of an ex-situ mineralization process, instead of geologic injection of CO2 underground, significantly reduces project and regulatory risk and allows us to execute on projects faster than anyone else.
We are the first DAC project in North America to integrate directly with a CO2 sequestration process; the second DAC project in the world to continually sequester CO2; and the first DAC project in the world to generate value-add carbonated materials with the CO2 that we capture! We will be working with Isometric - the leading carbon removal registry - to validate our process and give buyers of carbon credits confidence in every step of this work.
Project Juniper is modest in size, designed to remove 100 metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere every year. We will require another 100,000x increase in scale to achieve our goal of 10 megatons of CO2 removal in the next decade. We are on a path to achieve this goal. Project Juniper demonstrates not only the technical feasibility of our materials and engineering, but also the robust supply chains that exist for our materials, and the strong market demand for durable CDR credits that can be verified and delivered from real projects.
We have pre-sold all the credits that will be generated from Project Juniper this year and are actively working with leading CDR buyers - a market projected to reach $1T by 2050 - to secure contracts and offtakes for its future projects. Our team has completed pre-feasibility studies on our next generation plants; have advanced our Generation 2 sorbent material to further reduce cost; and are making key decisions around project siting for future, larger facilities.
If you want to be a partner to scale the world’s only low-cost and end-to-end validated direct air capture and storage system, please reach and we would love to have you on board!
Clairity’s direct air capture (DAC) system under construction in Southern Nevada. This system brings in atmospheric air where it is blown across sorbent cartridges. Once saturated with CO2, these cartridges are regenerated using low-temperatures, which release CO2 and water.
Clairity’s ex-situ mineralization system, which uses an engineered reactor to convert gaseous CO2 and an alkali feedstock into carbonated materials as an output.
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