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Let us introduce you to Electra 01. And some big news at the end of today’s post! Electra 01 is our first-of-a-kind DAC plant in Rotterdam. Using our patented Hydrolyzer technology, Electra 01 will remove CO2 at a multi-hundred ton scale from our atmosphere starting in 2025. Why did we choose the name Electra? Electra embodies our technology’s key advantage: it requires only renewable 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 and an 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑦𝑡𝑒 (an abundant salt dissolved in water). In cooperation with our storage partner Paebbl, we will turn the CO2 captured by Electra 01 into a supplementary cementitious material (SCM). This way, the CO2 is not only permanently stored, but turned into a valuable building material. With our Hydrolyzer technology, our plant will deliver carbon removal credits to early international customers such as Frontier (Shopify, Stripe) and Milkywire (Klarna, WRLD Foundation). And now to the big news: we are proud to announce that Electra 01 is co-funded by the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) through the €2.5M EIC accelerator grant. This plant will be a major milestone in the deployment of our Hydrolyzer technology. Phlair. Enabling a carbon-negative future.

Yesterday we gave our guests a glimpse into the future of Phlair. It was an honor to have State Minister Dr. Florian Herrmann as our opening speaker. During ‘Break of Dawn’, our three founders Malte, Paul and Steffen revealed our next generation tech made in Bavaria. Our modular absorber modules (the lung 🫁 of our DAC process), and patented hydrolyzer stack (the heart 🫀) will form the foundation of all our commercial DAC plants to come – including Dawn, our 20,000 tCO2/year first-of-a-kind plant set to start operating in 2026. Our panel guests Marian Krüger (remove), Carlos Haertel (former Climeworks CTO), Sophie-Louise Elsässer (CEEZER), and Andrew Shebbeare (Counteract), engaged in a lively and insightful discussion about the challenges and opportunities of CDR and DAC. 🥼 Guided lab tours gave our guests the opportunity to learn more about the fundamental science behind our technology and to take a look inside our R&D facilities. Many thanks to Luise Stangl (Gemeinde Ismaning) and Stefan Drüssler (UnternehmerTUM) for their words of welcome, as well as to Gyri Reiersen (Tanso) for being an exceptional host! 🧡 At Phlair, we enable a carbon negative future. It is inspiring to see that so many people are joining us on this journey.

🎉 Carbon Atlantis is now Phlair 🎉 We’re excited to announce that today, Carbon Atlantis becomes Phlair. Our new name better represents what we do: 🔄 ‘Ph’ as in pH swing: The fundamental science behind our Direct Air Capture technology is based on a pH swing mechanism. 💧 ‘L’ for liquid: Our closed loop system uses a liquid solvent. 💨 ‘Air’ for air: We remove CO2 from the air to help combat climate change. Visit our brand new website on phlair.com.

✅ Our first Circle of CDR is in the books! ✅ Last week, we brought together decision-makers and sustainability thought leaders from companies like BMW and Allianz. Our guest speaker, Robert Schiele, who established the Negative Emissions Technologies program at Siemens, discussed the challenges of building a CDR portfolio at a large corporation and gave insights into current market trends. Key takeaways: 🔄 Companies usually look for synergies when investing in CDR (e.g., technology companies may look for partnerships where they can, in turn, provide their technology to the supplier for carbon removal credits). 🇺🇸 The US government is actively engaging in developing countries to build regulatory foundations and secure access to CDR for US companies. Political powerhouses like the EU and China will need to step up their game to avoid being left behind. Later, our guests and the Carbon Atlantis team had some insightful conversations about the voluntary carbon market, our technology, and the current challenges and opportunities in technology-based CDR. Our amazing chef, Halina, treated us with freshly prepared tacos and natural wines. 📩 Contact Malte Feucht if you would like to be on the guestlist for our next Circle of CDR.

Today, the Deutscher Verband für negative Emissionen e.V. (DVNE) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) presented the newest study on Carbon Dioxide Removal. Carbon Atlantis’ Philipp Rothenberger contributed valuable insights on liquid DAC and electrochemical systems. 💡 Key Insights: The global economic potential of the industry is set to close to 1€ trillion annually in 2050. The potential for Germany 🇩🇪 is significant, contributing up to €70 billion to the nation's economy annually, thereby creating over 190,000 jobs 🚀 - more than the entire wind power industry today! Read more on Handelsblatt or download the report directly from BCG (link in comments).

Another amazing resource by CDR.fyi. Thanks for putting us on the map!

🕵️ Wanted: Absorption Engineer 🕵️ Scaling fast also means scaling the team. Our CTO Paul is looking for an Absorption Engineer. Some of the things you’ll work on (full job description in the comments): 🧪 screen new absorption agents and check compatibility with the entire DAC process 🔬 design/improve experimental absorption test experiments 🥼 develop new testing protocols and methodologies Why you should join us: 🌡️ solve one of the most important problems of our time: we're on a mission to combat climate change by capturing CO2 from the atmosphere 🚀 we’re moving fast: We have secured leading customers such as Shopify, Stripe and Deep Sky. To serve them and scale, we are building our first demo plants in the coming months: there's never been a more exciting time to join us! 📈 attractive compensation and stock options in the company 🏖️ 30 days of vacation per year 🎁 lot’s of perks: free Deutschland Ticket, fitness subscription, team lunch every Thursday with our amazing chef If this sounds like a role for you or someone you know, contact Paul or apply directly via Personio (link in the comments).

❗Warning: Today's post contains a lot of C’s Yesterday, we had the pleasure of welcoming Corey Pattison to our lab in Munich. Corey is Co-Founder and CEO of Cella, a carbon mineralization company providing secure, permanent and scalable Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). 🪨 Taking our captured CO2, they inject it underground where mineralization turns it into stone. Their innovative technology uses less water than other mineralization approaches. We’re eager to see their pilot deployment in Kenya! We’ve added a link in the comments where you can learn why they chose this location.

🔒 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗴𝘂𝘆𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗢𝟮 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 🔒 We recently visited our storage partner Paebbl in the Netherlands. Steffen, Paul and Joan took a look at the site in the port of Rotterdam where our first-of-a-kind 260 tCO2/year Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant will go live in 2025. Paebbl is the fastest-growing carbon dioxide (CO₂) utilization company in Europe. Their process will turn the CO2 captured by our DAC plant into a solid supplementary, cementitious material (SCM)). This method permanently removes the CO2 from our atmosphere - and creates a valuable building material. Thanks to the amazing Paebbl team Marta, Pol Knops, Arnold, Jim, Toon van Balen, and Louk Eskens, for welcoming us!

💚⚡ How can we decarbonize the EU electricity grid? This week, our co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer Steffen Garbe attended the Lisbon Energy Summit 2024. 250 industry leading speakers provided insights on how to drive an affordable, just energy transition that is based on renewables and free of emissions. 💡 The EU aims to be climate-neutral (net zero emissions) by 2050. To achieve this goal, EU emissions (2.7 GtCO2 in 2022) need to be reduced by at least 90% through decarbonisation. The remaining emissions will need to be neutralized through Carbon Dioxide Removals (CDR) to reach net zero. We’re excited to develop a scalable, reliable and affordable Direct Air Capture (DAC) method to address these unavoidable emissions with high quality and durable CDR. Connect with Steffen if you would like to learn more about our electrochemical DAC approach or if you would like to join our mission.