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Past

In the search of new materials to boost the efficiency of solar panels, by accident, one of the samples becomes highly porous. To his lucky surprise, this is the moment that Hans De Neve realizes how it could be used for the sake of direct air capture…

2010 - The very beginning
2018 - A series of first experiments
In 2018, a small team of researchers at TNO runs a series of experiments to validate Hans’ idea to use the porous material, that he created by accident, for direct air capture of CO₂. The first results are very promising and TNO investigates the option to create a spin-off company to further develop the technology and bring it to the market.
2019 - Carbyon is founded
2020 - New lab facilities
2021 - $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal

Carbyon has proven all aspects of the technology, bringing it beyond Technology Readiness Level 4. The next step is to learn from our integrated prototype and start with the development of the full-scale machine.

2023 - Integrated prototype
2024 - Full-scale machine development
The full-scale machine is aimed to have a capacity of around 100 tons/year and will be developed with the knowledge that we gain from our integrated prototype. The development phase will have to be executed in great detail and will require an expansion of our team.
2025 - Outdoor pilots

Our products are designed with mass manufacturing in mind to maximize impact towards our purpose. In the scale-up phase, production lines will be built allowing for the mass manufacturing of the machines, growing towards gigaton scale.

2030 - 55% reduction of European Union emissions
2050 - A net-zero emission world
By 2050, humanity should no longer add any excess CO₂ into the atmosphere. From then onwards we can start to reduce and restore the concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere.
2100 - A cleaned-up atmosphere
By the end of this century, we hope that CO₂ levels have been brought back to pre-industrial levels such that climate change comes to an end. To illustrate how daunting a task this is, one should know that all IPCC scenarios on the 1.5 °C target rely on the removal of large volumes of CO₂: up to 730 gigatons by 2100!
Direct air capture will continue to be used for the sake of e-fuels and renewable chemistry, using CO₂ as a green and circular feedstock molecule, leaving any fossil carbon sourced untouched forever.

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