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9/19/25 |
Climate Restoration Technologies (CRT) is a group of experienced multi-disciplinary scientists, engineers, and inventors focused on preventing mid-century climate and energy crises. Our team has developed accelerated marine phytoplankton technologies to help restore the pre-industrial climate by reducing excess CO2 and enhancing earth’s albedo. Our concepts can also enable 50% more energy and ~34% emissions reductions by 2050, with further reductions approaching ~90% by 2075. We envision bright white Emiliania huxleyi (EHUX) coccolithophores in amplified roles for enhancing earth albedo to reflect a small but effective fraction of incident sunlight back to outer space and help cool the earth. Our concept for preventing mid-century crises also includes diatom-based CO2 removal (CDR) to help reduce heat retention while restoring 1988-level ocean alkalinity. By accelerating pertinent natural marine processes, CRT is targeting both the cause of excess heat and the symptom. CRT brings decades of “outside-the-box” thinking, ingenuity, perseverance, and broad experience from diverse fields in solving seemingly intractable problems. Since 2006, our main focus has been developing concepts for lifting natural barriers that previously stymied success in up-scaling marine microalgal drawdown of excess atmospheric CO2 and in exploiting EHUX albedo for effective solar radiation management. CRT has developed multi-pronged, well-coordinated, and highly promising approaches for lifting those barriers in ways that could minimize unintended consequences. Our mission is to avoid runaway warming, to supply 50% more energy while cutting emissions ~34% and restoring ΔTGLOBAL = 0°C by mid-century, and to reduce emissions 90% while defusing sixth marine mass extinction before 2080.
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