Our Mission

Our Vision

Resource and Process Conscious

Nearly all existing carbon capture solutions require large amounts of land, water, and energy contributing to cost and scalability challenges. Microorganisms offer advantages by allowing nature to do the hard work more efficiently and with lower resource demand. Based in Arizona, we further take advantage of green energy availability and carefully track our net output.

A Harmonious Niche

Resource and Process Conscious

Although small, microorganisms pack a powerful punch. They are responsible for 20-50% the oxygen we breathe and have evolved a dazzling diversity of functions that have enabled them to adapt to nearly every environment on earth. At Airobes, we follow Nature's lead and expand on a harmonious niche already present on Earth.

Carbon Focused

Resource and Process Conscious

Rapidly Scalable

By leveraging a particular group of robust light-harvesting microorganisms and engineering across disciplines, we expand our infrastructure beyond traditional bioreactors - emphasizing efficiency and carbon tractability. Relying on principles of mass balance, rather than genetic engineering, we can more quickly meet the growing needs for the treatment of CO2.

Rapidly Scalable

Biology-based approaches for carbon removal are readily scalable with increasing batch sizes. To leverage this natural advantage, we are concurrently developing the necessary infrastructure to accelerate our impact. Boasting a diverse team of technical experts and engineers, Airobes aims to refine and scale our solution in lockstep with achieved milestones.

Useable Carbon Products

By leveraging the natural metabolic pathways of specific microorganisms, we can go beyond the capture and storage of carbon, giving it new life by generating useful products. Excitingly, our target output is commonly produced by industrial processes that release carbon into the atmosphere - providing a secondary means to reduce the anthropogenic carbon footprint.

Community Engagement

We strive to be visible. We want the community to feel proud of the human effort for change and optimistic about the environmental health of our planet and its sustainability for future generations. We would love the opportunity to engage with any community to share more about our vision and how we are working to achieve it.

Learn More About Carbon Capture and Removal Technology

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

The process of capturing carbon from atmospheric gases and point-source exhaust, specifically those contributing to the greenhouse effect, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4). Often paired with infrastructure to enable long-term storage of the resulting carbon mass. In the atmosphere, CO2 and CH4 concentrations are ~400ppm and ~1900ppm respectively (in 2023), making this process inherently inefficient.

Direct Air Capture (DAC)

Chemical and material science engineering enables the selective capture of CO2 directly from atmospheric gas. While land and water requirements are less than that of BECCS, these processes are typically energy and cost intensive, and encounter scalability challenges.

Biomass Carbon Removal (BiCRS)

The use of microorganisms to perform the fixation of carbon using Rubisco and other natural enzymes in a bioreactor format. Bioengineering has the potential to offer advantages in land, water, and energy requirements compared to all other methods. Moreover, by reimagining the metabolic pathways of these microorganisms, the carbon can be given new life in the form of useful consumer products like biofuel and nutritional supplements.

BioEnergy and Carbon Capture + Storage (BECCS)

Some crops have the ability to provide negative carbon emissions and therefore offer large scale potential for carbon capture and storage. This approach is primarily disadvantaged by the large amounts of land and water necessary to perform carbon removal and typically results in a biomass waste that still requires storage infrastructure.

Enhanced Weathering

Treatment of natural minerals to enhance their carbon storage capabilities with eventual storage underground. Efficiency is generally low and not considered feasible to reach carbon removal targets.

Afforestation and Reforestation

The planting of trees on land that typically lacked trees (afforestation) or replanting of trees in areas with historical tree cover (reforestation). While feasible, land and water requirements to reach carbon removal targets are higher than all other approaches.