Graphene Capture: A Carbon Negative Supermaterial?

Aside from being the world’s strongest, most versatile material, graphene is also a potentially massive benefit to the environment. 

That may sound like the first line of an unscrupulous sales pitch, but in this case, it’s no hyperbole. 

Graphene is, after all, a carbon nanostructure, which means somebody must have pulled carbon atoms from somewhere to produce it.

Done properly, carbon can literally be sequestered from gases, thus depriving them of all greenhouse potential.

That’s exactly what Cambridge-based Levidian, a company focused on industrial decarbonization, is doing right now. 

The company is using its proprietary LOOP technology to separate Methane, a greenhouse gas with as much as ten times the negative effect on the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, into hydrogen and carbon to form graphene.

From Greenhouse Gas To Building Block… Graphene’s Perfect Cycle

The company hopes to produce 50,000 tons of high-quality graphene using this method by the end of the decade.

John Hartley, Levidian CEO, commented:

“We believe that graphene is going to play a central role in helping the world’s most carbon-intensive businesses to decarbonise, solving the business case on decarbonisation projects thanks to its short return on investment, and delivering performance improvements on just about every product it touches. With this latest technology release, we’re setting graphene on a pathway to the mainstream, putting all the old issues of quality and scale aside to deliver unparalleled levels of graphene production that is less carbon intensive, more affordable and a higher quality than anything else on the market today.”

‘A pathway to the mainstream’, should be the words which stand out in this quote, as that has been the one hurdle graphene has not been able to get over since it first started making the wires twenty years go. 

But as the technology begins to back up the theories and dreams, that’s precisely what we’re getting. 

And one of the signs that the graphene singularity is here is the frequency of new products and advancements you see popping into the market.

One company I’ve personally been following for a long time now just recently released a graphene ‘slurry’ which, when injected into lithium-ion batteries, can enhance their performance through better heat dissipation. 

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That company, based in Australia, also makes its own graphene in house and does so using another proprietary method using natural gas.

It’s the same principle, with carbon getting taken out of gas form forever, with high quality graphene resulting in the process. 

This company is now using this graphene to improve the performance of 3rd party lithium ion rechargeable batteries. 

And also using it in their own graphene-based, 100% lithium free batteries

These batteries, once finished with advanced testing, are going to revolutionize the rechargeable battery world, and they’re the reason I started following this company to begin with. 

Here’s a taste of what we can expect:

Put a graphene battery pack into any typical EV, and you’ll be able to drive 1000 miles or more between charges, for a total battery life of a million or more miles. 

And that’s on the low end of the estimates. 

Most importantly, is charge time, which thanks to graphene’s superior electro and thermal conductivity, is up to 70 times faster than what we’re used to with today’s typical Li-Ion batteries. 

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So, if you’re the average Amerian driver, you would charge your car once a month for about forty seconds. 

That’s what it would look like to a consumer. 

These batteries are also far more durable and all but fireproof — a far cry from the occasionally incendiary lithium-ion batteries that power our phones, laptops, tablets, and not to mention everything else. 

This company is sitting on an industry-disrupting product, and unlike every ‘graphene battery’ ad you may have seen online, these things are the real deal. 

These are not graphene-enhanced or graphene-augmented batteries, which still run on lithium but contain small quanitites of the material in the casing or heatsink.

Right now, the company is all but overlooked by retail investors. 

That’s understandable. The retail crowd wouldn’t be the retail crowd if it didn’t follow the trends. 

Next year, however, promises to be a year of milestones, with commercialization coming closer and closer. 

Which makes being ahead of the trends more important than ever.

Learn everything you can about this company now, before you start reading about their incredible batteries in the mainstream press.

By then, it will be too late.