Investor Relations
Vision: Rebalancing the Earth’s Carbon Cycle to Near Pre-Industrial Levels set to reach the IPCC’s* critical gigaton-scale by 2050.
*The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations. Its job is to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities.
Value Statement
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- Marine CO2 removal from both air and water
- Self powered and emissions free
- Transforming CO2 into valuable products vs disposing of it
- Environmentally and economically sustainable
- Modular, Customizable, Scalable design up to GT/yr
Why Invest?
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- Innovative proprietary CO2 harvesting technology
- Proprietary power infrastructure lowers extracted costs
- Low-cost carbon products are stable for decades to centuries.
- Calcium carbonate
- Magnesium carbonate
- Lithium carbonate
- Bio-resins
- Polyacrylonitrile (PAN)
- Graphene
- And possibly even carbon nanotubes.
- Carbon Products value 1000x more than carbon credits
Market:
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- Offshore floating marine platforms harvesting CO2
- Commodity sales of carbon, desalinated water, brine minerals
- Our market includes coastal cities, nation-states, and islands
- Industrialized and non industrialized countries
Solid team
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- high-caliber, multidisciplinary professionals from around the globe.
- international scientists
- engineers
- naval architects
- and business leaders
- Passionately donated over 10,000 combined hours of effort prior to funding
- high-caliber, multidisciplinary professionals from around the globe.
So far beyond Carbon Removal:
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- Bulk volumes of seawater are now available as fresh water for industrial sale
- Global, sustainable, profitable stewardship goals
- We provide a change engine that touches all 17 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals making the world a better place to live and work for all, with obvious emphasis being on
- Goal 2: Zero Hunger
- Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
- Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
- Goal 13: Climate Action
- Zero Waste Cities on the Sea at GT/yr platforms
Quick Facts
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- 75% of all carbon emitted since the industrial revolution is sequestered in the oceans.
- Land-based desalination plants create brine zones which damage local ecosystems and kill coastal wildlife.
- 2.2 Billion people live in coastal areas where reliable fresh water is not available.
- KCR offers unique solutions to process excess brine and resolve other problems, without the environmental impacts of land-based desalination plants.
- Removing excess carbon from seawater will accelerate the ocean’s natural ability to absorb carbon dioxide to restores Earth’s dynamic equilibrium, refreshing the natural cycles and systems associated with climate stability.
Latest News
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- To date, KCR has raised over $600,000USD in bootstrapped capital, in-kind donations, and labor.
- KCR’s program was accepted as 1 of 287 qualified teams from the XPRIZE
- As of February 2022, KCR is actively working with government leaders in Portugal to address their water crisis.
Environmental, Social, and Governance
Every human being deserves inexpensive and equitable access to clean air, water, and renewable energy. KCR spar platforms put this within reach, while also combating climate change by enhancing the ocean’s ability to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere. The submitted project is a carbon neutral, marine-based solution to the challenge presented by the XPRIZE Carbon Removal Contest. Sustainability, social license, and environmental justice have been incorporated into the design solution from day one. Legacy business practices cannot effectively address the problem of climate change and carbon management; therefore, a disruptive solution is required. Otherwise, we are simply exchanging one problem for another. The KCR solution leverages 50 years of climate research and combines it with innovative technologies, processes, and market practices to address this daunting challenge.
The Kepler Carbon ReCapture (KCR) company is a team of high-caliber, multidisciplinary professionals from around the world with over a century of combined experience. The fully-scaled solution is capable of meeting the IPCC 2050 goal of 10 gigatonnes per year of carbon removal and sequestration. The megatonne and gigatonne platforms are designed with living and working conditions in mind; sustaining small local economies; providing fulfilling work / life conditions for crew, support staff, vendors, and families; creating a new workforce development market opportunity in R&D, maintenance, construction, and management.
We are cognizant about potential adverse effects our operation may have on the marine environment. These risks, as well as other potential ecological and economic effects, are being thoroughly analyzed and modeled, and will be managed as identified.
KCR’s proposed solution to the Carbon Removal Problem has sustainability, social license, and environmental justice inherent in its design. Impoverished living conditions typically lead to increased environmental hazards. Sanitation, water security, proper waste disposal, and other metrics are being studied.
Our solution improves the environment for all concerned, be it human or wildlife, and was designed that way from the beginning. Improvement over business as usual is intentional, yet the project recognizes that there is still much work that needs to be done. As the project moves forward, KCR leadership will incorporate these issues into their R&D roadmap to assure the company is meeting its goals of equitable treatment for all.