Fast Company’s Adele Peters featured Capture and Project Monarch in a story about unlocking value from carbon removal and waste brine.

“The company integrates its tech into existing industrial sites. In the new project, which recently broke ground, the tech will also tackle a problem for the water treatment plant. When it processes wastewater, the plant will end up with tons of brine—something that’s usually costly to get rid of. Capture6 will use that brine to create a solvent that captures CO₂ from the air.”

Adele points out what sets Capture6 apart— that “…most direct air capture technology works by pulling air through a filter or liquid to absorb CO₂. Then it uses a lot of energy to get the CO₂ out for storage or reuse. But instead of using filters, Capture6 has one main step—the solvent it makes from brine reacts with the CO₂ to form a mineralized carbonate. The CO₂ doesn’t have to be removed again. Instead, the carbonate can be used to make green chemicals. The water treatment plant will use the product to replace some of the chemicals it normally uses, reducing emissions from its supply chain.”

She also comments on the massive potential for impact in the carbon removal and water recovery spaces, saying “The water utility expects to save 40% of the lifetime cost of treating water at the plant because of the new technology. Because of the cost savings, Capture6 says that it already has a line of interested customers. Other projects will soon break ground in Australia, South Korea, and other parts of the U.S. And because it’s not relying on carbon credits to grow, the company believes it could scale up much faster than others in the industry.”

Read the full article from Fast Company.