Trees solved CO2 sequestration
400 million years ago.
All we do is store them.
What people are saying
“This could be accomplished without involving protected or intact forests, or affecting food supply or biological diversity.”
— National Academy of Sciences
“Because a large flux of CO2 is constantly being assimilated into the world's forests via photosynthesis, cutting off its return pathway to the atmosphere forms an effective carbon sink.”
— Professor Ning Zeng
University of Maryland
“In the five years I have been following the carbon capture space, Exaquest's idea and approach is the most exciting and interesting that I have come across.”
— Timothy Bergin
On Beyond Investing
A Gigaton-Scale Solution
By slowing down the decomposition of biomass by just 0.5%, we will remove 1 billion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere every year.
Cheap and
Energy-Efficient
Trees use solar energy to capture CO2. Thus by using trees, our cost of carbon capture is essentially zero. Other carbon capture strategies require a lot of energy. To scale, these strategies would require either fossil fuels—which would undercut their reason to exist—or renewable energy infrastructure that hasn't been built.
Easy to Deploy
We can easily and durably store carbon above ground as dry wood. This is very different from the way other organizations do carbon storage. They end up needing to store pure CO2—which adds further costs and engineering challenges.