It was fun to chat with KOLD13 reporter Carsyn Currier about Atmospherica’s work and plans! Watch the news coverage via their archive through the link below.
KOLD13 Reportage on Atmospherica
Atmospherica featured in KGUN9 News!
Excellent report on Atmospherica by Ryan Fish on KGUN9 on April 27, 2022. Check out the video for a short summary of our project.
Atmospherica featured in UA News!
An excellent article by Mikayla Mace Kelley from UA News on our team’s work on using a scalable biotechnology solution to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide. Read about how we combine astrobiology, biosystems engineering, and ecology for a novel approach to mitigating a global challenge.
Small but mighty: How UArizona professors are harnessing the power of algae to capture carbon
Joel Cuello on the BIO5 Podcast
Atmospherica a “Qualified Team” for Carbon Removal XPRIZE
We are excited to learn that XPRIZE selected our Atmospherica team as one of the qualified teams of the XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition! Of the 1,133 teams who registered for the competition, only 287 qualified with a complete submission. We are looking forward to learning about the excellent ideas of the winners and all the teams on Earth Day 2022!
Atmospherica Team Visits Heliae
Our Atmospherica team visited Heliae, a Phoenix-based company with extensive experience in developing and scaling microbial-based solutions to commercial scale. Our teams share a passion for solving global challenges via scalable methods.
Atmospherica enters XPRIZE CDR Milestone Competition
On February 1, 2022, our Atmospherica team submitted its application to the Carbon Removal XPRIZE Competion’s Milestone award.
“The XPRIZE foundation is a non-profit organization that awards prizes to incentivize radical technical and scientific breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In February 2021, XPRIZE announced its largest prize contest thus far: XPRIZE Carbon Removal aims at developing sustainable solutions for the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Funded by Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation, the $100 Million competition is the largest incentive prize in history. This challenge comes at an excellent time for Atmospherica: our bioreactor technology has been demonstrated under realistic conditions, and biochemical and economic models for scaling up our technology have been developed. We could show that Atmospherica’s innovative approach of using photosynthetic microalgae in a controlled environment will enable permanent removal of CO2 from the atmosphere. Importantly, the design of our system is not only intrinsically scalable, but its realization will have a negative carbon footprint when all inputs and products are considered.It is time to put our vision to the test. On February 1st, 2022, Atmospherica entered the milestone stage of the XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition with the goal of securing funding for achieving our next crucial milestone: realizing a prototype bioreactor plant that achieves a net carbon removal of more than 1 kiloton of CO2 per year.”