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OUR TEAM
We are a team of students at Jean de la Mennais, a high school near Montreal. We are motivated to build the best carbon removal solution possible. We have access to a decent amount of tools from our high school, that is supporting us in our endeavor. Our group consists of two students who have done multiple engineering projects together and a teacher, who used to work at the University of Montreal, and has a PhD from this university. Meet our members below.
Team Mentor
Co-Founder
Co-Founder
Pierre-Luc Boulay
"Over the past 16 years, as principal investigator, I have conceptualized and conducted a number of research projects associated with breast cancer disease in collaboration with several internationally well-known scientists. I published my research findings in notorious scientific journals such as PNAS, Oncogene, JBC, as well as in Cancer research."
Samuel Dupont
"I am a student as well as a passionate lover of creating, testing and building things. I love developping my designing skills, putting myself to work, and pushing my limits to get to new horizons. I am also very curious; I want to know how we can fix this big issue and I am willing to fail and fail again to arrive at compelling results."
Ryan P-M
"I am a student who cares deeply about innovation and technology. I want to build systems that can impact people’s lives in positive ways. I am fully committed to solving this problem. The team and I won’t give up and will continue to go against all odds to get there."
Research and Development
Outside Help
Lead Scientist
"Growing up, I always wanted to make a positive impact on my community by solving important issues with innovative solutions. I want to use my technical knowledge to make a difference and help others. In order to achieve our endeavour, I will relentlessly strive for progress, and I won’t stop until we achieve our goal."
Edouard Dupont
THE THREE STEP PROCESS
Step 1: Capture
The first step in permanently removing CO2 from the ambient air is to concentrate it. CO2 composes about 0.04% of the average air. To neutralize carbon dioxide, you need much higher concentrations. The way our team has tackled this problem is to run air through an aqueous solution, which creates a precipitate. This precipitate is then heated to release the CO2 at much higher concentrations.
Step 2: Neutralization
The second step, once you have concentrated CO2, is to neutralize the carbon dioxide. We do this by reacting the concentrated CO2 with a reactant which chemically seperates the carbon from the O2. If the right conditions were to happen, we could either use the excess thermal energy to heat up the precipitate in step 1 or even generate "net-negative" electricity.
Step 3: Sequestration
Once we have pure carbon (essentially soot), we can be certain it won't become CO2 again. We can then put it away for a very long time. The way we have decided to do this is to put it away in one of the many abandonned mine shafts here in Quebec. Considering the shear size of theses mines, it would protect the carbon from the elements, prevent it from becoming a bio-hazard (as it is very volatile) and prevents it from absorbing the heat of the Sun which could increase global warming.