This is going to be BIG…
And that’s No HOT AIR
Climate Change
Mitigation
Direct Air Carbon
Capture
Regenerative Braking
Self-Powered
Train Emissions
Co-Capture
On Track to Climate Change-BACK…
CO2Rail Company is a US-based start-up founded in 2020 that has developed rail-based, self-powered direct air capture (“DAC”) technology which removes excess carbon dioxide from the ambient air using the global rail network, purpose-built rail equipment, and sustainable, train-generated regenerative braking energy with no external energy inputs required.
Pictured – CO2Rail Car with zero-carbon, regenerative braking powered Direct Air Carbon Capture and air intakes that extend up into the slipstream of the moving train. Certain configurations with multiple intakes can remove over 15 Tonnes of CO2 per day for geological sequestration and have no fixed, land footprint. Each complete braking maneuver produces enough energy from regenerative braking to remove over 1.5 Tonnes of CO2.
Energy Advantages
| Regenerative Braking Self-Powered | ✅ |
| Included Only with Existing Trains in Regular Service | ✅ |
| Sustainable Energy Source | ✅ |
| No External Energy Requirement | ✅ |
| No Off-Duty Charging Cycles Required | ✅ |
| On-Board 2,400 kWh Battery Array | ✅ |
Land & Water Advantages
| No Fixed, Land-Based Footprint | ✅ |
| No Land Acquisition Costs | ✅ |
| No Land Preparation or Land Maintenance Costs | ✅ |
| No Land-Use Permitting Required | ✅ |
| No Land/Environmental Surveys Required | ✅ |
| Few Community Acceptance Issues | ✅ |
Efficiency Advantages
| No Air Moving Equipment Required | ✅ |
| ~50 kWh/hour Additional Train Drag [F] | ✅ |
| Excess Battery Array Energy Supplied Back to Locomotive(s) for Propulsion | ✅ |
| Most Efficient Sorbent System Available | ✅ |
Scaling Advantages
| Required Infrastructure is Already in Place | ✅ |
| Utilizes the Tremendous Scope and Scale of the Global Rail Network | ✅ |
| Rail Equipment Manufacturing Sector is Mature and Massive | ✅ |
| Tremendous Growth in Rail Utilization in Both Freight and Passenger Sectors | ✅ |
Climate Justice Advantages
| No Fixed, Land-Based Footprint | ✅ |
| No Massive Building Projects on Important Lands | ✅ |
| Transient and Generally Unseen by the Community | ✅ |
| No Enormous Allocation of Regional Energy Supplies | ✅ |
| Built-In Macro-Scale Climate Justice Controls1 | ✅ |
Emissions Advantages
| Remove CO2 Emissions from Diesel Trains [LEM] | ✅ |
| Carbon-Neutral Regular Diesel Rail Transportation | ✅ |
| Carbon-Neutral in Carbon-Negative DAC Operations | ✅ |
| Rail 3 – 5x More Emissions Efficient than Truck | ✅ |
| Could Initiate Positive Feedback Loop in Rail Utilization | ✅ |
Rail-Based, Self-Powered Direct Air Carbon Capture
The CO2Rail System deploys proven technology for the Direct Air Capture of man-made Carbon Dioxide gas from the environment. It powers itself utilizing only onboard hybrid, regenerative braking energy generated from already running Trains in regular service and Railcar mounted solar cells.
“Rail-Based, Self-Powered Direct Air Carbon Capture”
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“CO2Rail is poised to revolutionize carbon capture…”
Advanced Science News – November, 2021 Link
“I believe CO2Rail is one of the few approaches to CDR that has a chance of succeeding as it looks at a system rather than an individual operation.”
Peter Styring – Professor of Chemical Engineering & Chemistry at The University of Sheffield
“One of 2021’s most exciting and impactful developments in science“
Advanced Science News – January 2022 Link
“The big question is, which of the carbon capture technologies can deliver on their promises? Without partiality, we have placed our bets on a freshly minted start-up known as CO2Rail.“
Geoffrey Ozin – Government of Canada Research Chair in Solar Fuels, Distinguished University Professor, University of Toronto, Albert Einstein Award Recipient
“CO2Rail is a bold, visionary concept for distributed CDR with significant potential.
Roland Dittmeyer – Professor, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
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Just curious if there are any investment opportunities for Seed investors? I love this idea and concept and fully believe in it. thanks
Not at this time but things can always change in the future. Send an email to admin@co2rail.com with what you had in mind and we will let you know when opportunities might develop that would interest you. Thanks, Brian.
Can we please use a photograph of the DAC-waggon in an article on http://www.solarify.eu?
Thanks in advance
Gerhard Hofmann