Watch this summary videoThat question led him to Cornell University, where he started a research programme exploring ways to accelerate natural carbon cycle processes in soils and waters. That idea now underpins Vycarb’s* system: modular reactors accelerate CO2 storage in water and convert it to bicarbonate, with real-time sensors monitoring baseline and resulting carbon chemistry. Bicarbonate is the form carbon dioxide naturally taxes once stored in the ocean, making Vycarb’s system a way to simply accelerate what the ocean already does safely and controllably for industrial applications. Ocean-based capture; which uses the planet’s largest carbon sink – the ocean, which holds 71 percent of all carbon on earth – to store CO2 through its natural chemistry and carbon cycle. Vycarb’s system, built into modular pipe reactors, draws in CO2 from various sources and reacts it with water and naturally occurring minerals like calcium and magnesium.