URBAN CANOPY

Revolutionizing sustainable Biofuels while creating a cleaner, safer Future for all.
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Our Driving Vision

50 Million

Gallons of clean butanol produced per year per factory

3.8 Million

Cars on the road using clean butanol

50

Carbon negative facilities world-wide

Urban Canopy will have created enough biofuels in a sustainable manner to rival fossil fuels, creating a brand new default-energy-supply, and limiting future carbon emissions drastically.

Our team envisioned a world that did not emit dangerous levels of carbon. The dream of waking up, looking outside, and breathing fresh, unpolluted air is incredibly appealing, in part because many of our team have experienced the effects of global warming firsthand. We hope that our vision can become more than just a vision — we hope that it can become reality.

About Urban Canopy

Here at Urban Canopy, we envision a future where the world is clean, sustainable, and safe from greenhouse gasses that contribute to global warming. A future where butanol and electric powered vehicles work hand and hand to reduce the emissions that we as humans create.

We take a unique approach to tackle these challenges by employing artificial photosynthesis. Recent and promising research shows that we can turn carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and transform it into butanol and hexanol. We are here to make that into a reality.

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How does urban canopy work?

We Employ Artifical Photosynthesis, broken into 3 main steps:

Carbon capture

First, we extract CO2 from the atmosphere and use PV cells (solar panels) to supply a sustainable electricity supply. We will be using these solar panels not only to power the electrolysis of molecules, but also to power the entire facility, making Urban Canopy a truly carbon-negative solution.

electrolysis

Next, we transform water and carbon dioxide into CO and O2, molecules needed in the final step. Thus, electrolysis is induced to reduce the CO2 to CO, which is a syngas, or synthetic gas. We also charge an iridium-oxide-coated-titanium anode which oxidizes the H2O to O2.

Fermentation

Finally, the syngas produced by the CO2 electrolyzer is converted to acetate and ethanol by an anaerobic bacteria called Clostridium Autoethanogenum. The butyrate and hexanoate are reduced by CO and H2 to butanol and hexanol by the same bacteria.

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