Big News: 🎉 We've removed our first ton of CO2! 🎉
At Paebbl, we intend to make a big dent against global warming by restoring the planet's carbon balance by 1 billion tons of CO2 per annum by 2050.
We turn CO2 into CO3, transforming carbon from a gaseous, high-energy state (CO2) to a solid, low-energy state (CO3) carbonate (aka rock powder). This solid carbonate is then inset into decarbonizing the built environment.
Today we are thrilled to announce that we’ve reached a major milestone: we have mineralised our first ton of CO2 at our pilot facility, and turned it into decarbonised raw materials for use in the built environment. We’re moving fast, but our journey is barely a humbling 0.0000001% complete.
Turning carbon dioxide into carbonate rock is nothing new, it is what happens in nature when rain hits rock and forms a different kind of rock, carbonate. We just speed up the process a million times or so.
We make a lot of rock powder, about three tons of rock powder for every ton of carbon dioxide we re-store. With our close partners, we put that rock powder to good use, replacing construction materials that emit CO2. Replacing other materials with our re-stored carbon multiplies our impact.
This year, Paebbl intends to start production from our continuous demo plant, growing capacity 10x from where we are today. That will be our third scale-up step in 18 months.
But is it fast enough? The challenge ahead of us (for Paebbl, the construction industry, and for the 🌍) is immense. We are late as a society to step up to face climate change. Very late.
So we need more brilliant, planet-aligned, resilient people to join the thirty of us Paebblers as soon as possible.
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🙏 Thankful for the support of our investors and partners along this journey: 2050, Pale blue dot, The Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, Marc von Keitz, Marie Ekeland, Jane Walerud, Bengt Walerud, Hampus Jakobsson, David Helgason, Illusian Family Office, Benjamin Ratz, Lawrence Barclay, Lea Bajc, Anna Wedar, First Fellow Partners, Moaffak Ahmed, VOYAGERS.io, David Rowan, Jeremy Yap, and many more.