Salt conversion.
The electrochemical foundation of our process.
What it does
Salt conversion creates alkalinity. Using only seawater and renewable electricity, the process electrochemically separates dissolved salts into two streams: an alkaline stream and an acidic stream. The alkaline stream becomes the active ingredient for ocean CO2 removal. The acidic stream is routed to acid neutralisation, where it is safely neutralised on land. The acidic stream is not discarded — it is neutralised into useful by-products.
Why it matters
The ocean cannot remove additional CO2 at the rate the climate now requires without assistance. Producing alkalinity electrochemically — rather than mining and shipping vast quantities of alkaline material — is what makes gigaton-scale CO2 removal practical and cost-effective. The system scales with renewable energy: every additional megawatt of solar or wind translates directly into additional atmospheric CO2 removed.
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Project Alkalion, our modular demonstration, takes the technology into the real ocean environment — ahead of Ocean Ionics One, our first commercial plant.