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WEBB: “Well, sir, thanks for making time today. We appreciate it. Kind of talk to our audience about what exactly CarbonQuest is.”
JOHNSON: CarbonQuest is a company that’s breaking trail in this exciting new space that we call distributed carbon capture, which essentially means that we’re capturing the emissions from industrial, fossil fuel sources, and we’re removing the CO2, which is the harmful substance before it goes into the atmosphere. So we’re capturing that carbon and putting to use some beneficial applications.”
WEBB: “For people not familiar kind of to describe how the process works.”
JOHNSON: “Yes, it’s an exciting new technology. It’s cutting edge. We developed it here in Spokane. We started this journey five years ago on a whiteboard, and so we take it from whiteboard to what you’re seeing here behind us. And the way the technology works is the CO2 when you combust natural gas is at a gas form, and what we’re trying to do is process that CO2, draw that CO2 out – we separate the CO2 from the gasses before it’s emitted into the atmosphere, and then we can either convert it to a liquid and transport it and put it to use in applications, or we can sequester it in the ground permanently removing CO2 from the atmosphere.”WEBB: “Okay and I understand, if you took it liquid form, you can reuse that?”JOHNSON: “Yeah, absolutely. So in some of our projects today, there’s many locations or many applications we can use the CO2. In our New York projects that are in operation today, we’re actually utilizing it, embedding it in concrete, and that concrete now, you know, creates a green or sustainable concrete product that is going back into construction new facilities in New York City. It can also go into aggregates, it can go into alternative fuels, it can go into chemicals and graphene and deposits. It’s a whole innovation cycle. How do we we put CO2 to a beneficial use, creating a circular carbon economy?”
WEBB: “Okay, and I understand, people here in Washington are going to start seeing some of this technology implemented.”JOHNSON: “Yeah, we’re, we’re excited about the work that we’re doing in Washington State. There’s many industrial projects that we’re engaged in actively, a few of them that we’ve announced. One exciting one is with Eastern Washington University here locally. And so we get we actually do a project in, you know, our backyard that’s going to help the university decarbonize. We’re excited about the work that we’re doing there. We can demonstrate how this technology works, and can scale it up to solve this hard to abate, you know, industrial decarbonization challenges, which is where we’re focused on.”
WEBB: “We were talking about putting that liquid form into the concrete and that type of production, or maybe burying the solid rock underground. Let’s say if there was, you know, some type of natural disaster, earthquake or something, has there been any testing done as to will that emit into the air, if that happened?”
JOHNSON: “The faster that that that CO2 converts to a mineral means that it’s permanently stored. So when it’s mineralized it, literally, you can crush it up. If an earthquake happened, there’s nothing to be emitted, because it’s rock at that point, right? So there is a transition phase, and there’s some studies ongoing, how do we mitigate, you know, that during that transition phase, but there’s so much innovation going into speeding up that time frame, you know, we get to find a pathway to make the future more sustainable for our kids and our grandkids, but do it in economically viable way and we think that’s important, that’s, that’s going to scale adoption of this technology and industry.”
WEBB: “New world and it’s based right here in Spokane.”
JOHNSON: “Cheers.”
WEBB: “Thank you. Thanks for your time.”
JOHNSON: “Thank you.”
WEBB: “We appreciate it.”
