Airhive

"Conflict is growing globally. We're definitely in a more unstable time than we've been really since the Second World War. If we're on track for a 3°C world, the level of conflict we've experienced in the last century is nothing like what we will face - it will be much, much more severe. It's not just about things like fatalities; it's things like whole countries becoming unlivable spaces, and the knock-on effects on global stability."   We spoke with Airhive's CEO and co-founder Rory Brown on climate change, conflict, and direct air capture (DAC) technology. Airhive is pioneering a hybrid geochemical-DAC technology that uses fluidization to achieve rapid, cost-effective CO2 removal from the atmosphere. Their innovative approach addresses the urgent need for large-scale carbon removal to combat climate change and its global impacts.   https://lnkd.in/ei-w-fFK   #DeepTech #DirectAirCapture #ClimateChange #DAC #CDR #CO2Removal #Environment #ClimateTech | Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, The Coca-Cola Company, Deepsky, Collaborative Fund, AP Ventures, Brinc, XPRIZE, Carbon Unbound, Isometric, Teesside University, Innovate UK, Siemens, The OpenAir Collective, Net Zero Industry Innovation Centre, Stripe, Shopify, H&M, University of Sussex, University of Oxford

New research from Airhive on public perceptions of direct air capture! We worked with social science researchers Molly James and Natalie Carter to understand perceptions of #DAC in the Tees Valley, United Kingdom, where we are deploying our first pilot project. Natalie and Molly interviewed nearly 40 community stakeholders in the Tees Valley to understand and analyse public perceptions of DAC and socially responsible industry. A few of the takeaways from the interviews that stood out to us: 1. Community members are largely unfamiliar with DAC (something we in the CDR echo chamber can forget) but when presented with information, see the climate benefits as valuable and issues such as energy requirements as important 2. The Tees Valley industrial heritage provides a strong sense of regional pride and interest in industry, but also some scepticism as a result of unfulfilled promises in the past 3. Co-benefits matter, and community members had ideas to offer for what these might look like in context While these takeaways are not necessarily generalisable, we hope this research is the beginning of a concerted effort from the DAC industry to understand how local communities think about DAC and how we can work towards a mutually beneficial DAC industry. See the rest of the key takeaways on our blog, and keep an eye out for the full report, which will be released later this year. #communityengagement #cobenefits #directaircapture #carbonremoval

We had a great time with The Chemical Engineer talking about our quite unusual application of a bread and butter chemical engineering process - fluidisation - to direct air capture. Thank you to Amanda Jasi for highlighting our progress. You can check out her full article here: https://lnkd.in/gh-JsKuq To help meet the challenge climate change presents to us all, we need many more chemical engineers - and other engineers and scientists - to be excited about tackling climate change by designing, building and operating novel technologies. In our team, we have some brilliant engineers from the UK and overseas. We wanted to give a shout-out to Kenechukwu Ugonabo, a chemical engineer from Nigeria, and Emmanuel Kankam, a mechanical engineer from Ghana, who just completed their industrial placements with us in May and are now continuing on with us as we commission and test our pilot system in Teesside. If you are interested in joining our rapidly growing team, please visit our website and get in touch! #catchcarbonfaster #engineering #carbonremoval #DAC #netzero

It was amazing to see so many XPRIZE Carbon Removal Finalists at Carbon Unbound NYC, such a rare occurrence to have you all in the same room! Paul Needham (Arca), Claire Nelson (Cella), Julia Reichelstein (Vaulted Deep), Mary Yap (Lithos Carbon), Maya Kashapov (Captura), Teresa Geruson and Angus Marshall (Airhive), Gabriel Vézina (Skyrenu technologies), Martin Freimüller (Octavia Carbon), Matt Wilson Plasek (Climate Robotics), not pictured Mike Kelland (Planetary) and Jim Mann (UNDO). #XPRIZECarbonRemoval #CarbonUnbound #CDR #carbonremoval #climatetech

We recently had the fantastic opportunity to visit Siemens' Process Automation World in Karlsruhe, Germany. It was great to deep dive into Siemens’ expertise in intelligent measurement, modular process and plant control systems, and manufacturing design. We are excited about how Siemens can support us to make the first commercial #DAC facilities we’re working on at the moment as safe, intelligent and accurate as possible. We also saw some some super cool robotics! Thank you to Thomas Mohr, Michael von Reitzenstein-Dehler, and Christian Bohnert in particular for hosting us, and Olia Filippova for making it happen. #catchcarbonfaster

We were really pleased to welcome Isometric to our Teesside pilot facility last week! We're collaborating with the Isometric team to ensure that our measurement systems facilitate transparent data collection. This means buyers understand how much carbon dioxide is captured from the air in real-time. It was great to show the team around and show off #fluidisation in action--fortunately the Isometric team is as into carbon removal as we are. We look forward to welcoming more visitors to Teesside soon. #cdr #carbonremoval #DAC #netzeroteesside

Airhive is an XPRIZE Carbon Removal Finalist! XPRIZE Carbon Removal has selected 20 finalists from over 1000 teams based on the viability of their path to low cost at gigatonne scale. The finalists, like so many of the applicants, are talented innovators each pushing to scale carbon removal’s climate impact today. That resonates deeply with our team and our mission - to repurpose well-understood technology in a novel way that enables us to scale our climate impact fast. Thank you very much to the XPRIZE team and judges for all your hard work to support our ecosystem. Check out our new website for more details on how we’re scaling fast - https://www.airhive.earth/ XPRIZE, Exterra Carbon Solutions, Deep Sky, AP Ventures, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners #gettingtogigatonne #carbonremoval

Have you ever wished you could candidly ask a climate tech startup CEO about the challenges and innovation opportunities required to scale critical climate tech? Then check out our latest piece featuring interviews with 4 #CDR CEOs from the Third Derivative portfolio: Ram Amar (Rewind), Rory Brown (Airhive), Corey Pattison (Cella), and Amir Shiner (RepAir Carbon Capture)! #climatetech #Startup #innovation

The #XPRIZECarbonRemoval's Top 100 teams is a wonderful testament to the geographic and scientific diversity of our shared global effort to make carbon removal a large, impactful aspect of the bigger mission to limit climate change and rebalance Earth’s carbon cycle. There are many other teams beyond this list too doing sterling work. Airhive and Exterra Carbon Solutions are very happy to be recognised for our contributions to this global effort through approaches that leverage abundant earth minerals to capture and store atmospheric carbon. Congratulations to all the XPRIZE Top 100 for all the progress towards our shared goal, and thank you to the XPRIZE team themselves for their brilliant support to the carbon removal innovation community since launch in April 2021. Nikki Batchelor, Roopa Dandamudi, Michael Leitch, Olivier Dufresne, David F. https://lnkd.in/eVrkQDBa

We're really pleased to announce that Airhive has raised a pre-seed round to support the deployment of two 1,000 tonne direct air capture pilots this year! We got our start in a small lab in West London in 2022 and will deliver these two pilots, which will be among the largest commercial DAC deployments in the world, in autumn 2024. We’re truly thrilled to have our investors AP Ventures, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, Collaborative Fund, and angels supporting our mission to accelerate DAC deployment. Many, many others have also helped us turn this from an idea into a rapidly scaling DAC company-- AirMiners, Frontier Climate, Deep Sky, Third Derivative, Net Zero Industry Innovation Centre, and Teesside University to name just a few! Direct air capture, deployed at speed and scale. Let’s do this. #directaircapture #DAC #decarbonisation #fluidisation #climatetech #speedandscale