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The team at Twelve, a breakthrough materials innovation startup born at Stanford University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, envisions a future in which carbon is circular: harvested from the air and from landfills to produce new products using clean energy. It’s a future as nature might design it, with renewable energy from the sun powering an entire ecosystem based on CO₂ and water as raw materials: a future powered by industrial photosynthesis. That future would be cleaner and quieter, while also smelling fresher and distributing resources more equitably.
How might that happen? Twelve’s answer is this: by transforming carbon dioxide into critical chemicals and materials used in everyday products, thus drastically lowering lifecycle emissions and setting a new standard for how products and fuels are made. In this presentation, Heidi Lim, Director of the Product Ecosystem for Twelve, will explain how carbon transformation enables companies to create a wide range of products using carbon sourced from air, not oil, without compromising quality. Lim will provide an overview of the technology’s potential and touch on examples of products that have already been created using carbon transformation, ranging from Mercedes Benz car parts and ingredients used in Tide laundry detergent to E-Jet® sustainable aviation fuel.