Who we are
The technology for Inertial started from an idea in grad school while building and operating hypersonic wind tunnels: if I intentionally design a bad wind tunnel, how much of the CO2 in the airflow can be condensed and can that then be removed? Over many years that idea was researched, worked over, changed, smoothed over, researched more, changed, smoothed some more, changed again, and now is finally ready to change the world. Simply put, Inertial is going to freeze water and carbon dioxide out of industrial exhaust flows using a proprietary process which can scale up to handle the massive amount of emissions produced by point source generators like power plants and cement plants. These operational scales of carbon capture would be unmatched and make a massive contribution towards achieving global carbon neutrality by 2050.
Major Components of Industrial Exhuast
H2O: Water Vapor - Target 90% capture
Water is a widely overlooked product of combustion and industrial processes. Instead of being released into the atmosphere to then fall as rain wherever it may, Inertial will collect this water at the source to then be injected into local municipal water sources and/or aquifers. A 750 MW natural gas combined-cycle power plant emits 528 million gallons of water per year. A 90% capture rate would produce 475 million gallons of water per year which is enough to service all of Salt Lake City for 6.5 days.
CO2: Carbon Dioxide - Target 50% capture
A 750 MW natural gas combined-cycle power plant emits roughly 2.4 million tons of CO2 per year. Inertial aims to capture 50+% of the CO2 emitted from this plant which means preventing 1+ million tons of CO2 from being released into the atmosphere. This is the equivalent of the carbon sequestered annually by 1,000,000 acres of US forests. These numbers are from a single power plant. There are over 3,400 fossil fuel-fired power plants in the United States.