Brilliant Planet is running algae farms to pull carbon out of the air

Sure you can run machines to decarbonize the air, but where is the fun in that when you can invite mother nature to do the work for you?

The company has created what it believes is the perfect conditions for low-cost carbon capture by replicating the perfect growth conditions for algae blooms.

If you read the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, you know that we have missed the point at which we can change our behavior and decrease CO 2 output. We have to remove the carbon from the atmosphere. It is going to be important to have other ways of keeping carbon in the atmosphere at manageable levels. Adam Taylor, CEO at Brilliant Planet, said that it takes time to change our behaviors.

That is exactly what Brilliant Planet is doing. There are many parts to carbon reduction, but there are also challenges around that. It wants to get the price of a ton of CO2 removed from the atmosphere.

Brilliant Planet is using the power of algae to permanently and quantifiably sequester carbon. The company's innovative processes enable vast quantities of microalgae to grow in open-air pond-based systems on coastal desert land. This can be achieved without using freshwater by using a natural process that contributes to the health of oceans and air.

The process is powered by the sun and requires pumps to move water around. The company doesn't use any freshwater in its process, and the process helps de-acidify the ocean water it does use, which is one of the perks of its method.

We have to move very large volumes of seawater around, and that uses energy, but we have done a lot of design work around running the system extremely energy efficient. Most of the system is fed by gravity from one pond to the next. We have a partnership with the university to improve the ponds. We need to raise water from ocean level to a few meters above sea level in order to de-acidify that. We de-acidify the equivalent of five units of ocean water back to pre-industrial levels when we bring in ocean water.

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Brilliant Planet will use the proceeds of the Series A round to prepare for the construction of a 30-hectare commercial demonstration facility while continuing its fundamental R&D program based in London.

Net primary productivity is created by using empty desert and seawater that would not have otherwise come to the surface. The Chief Scientist and Co-Founder at Brilliant Planet says that this approach sequesters up to 30 times.

The company closed a $12 million Series A funding. The round was co-led by two companies. Future Positive Capital is one of the additional investors.