Decarbonize.

Revitalize. Thrive.

Bringing balance to disrupted waters

Lillianah Technologies
offers cost-effective
carbon removal technology

50x-100x

50-100X cheaper than Direct Air Capture, targeting ocean carbon.

Hundreds

Lillianah has the opportunity to develop hundreds of projects.

2
billion tons

Hundreds of projects could mean removing over 2 billion tons of CO2e annually.

The Problem

Carbon removal is too expensive

Current carbon removal technologies cannot meet demand nor offset enough of our global emissions. Without a plan, the future is bleak.

Humans are emitting carbon so fast our planet cannot keep up. We are unintentionally causing environmental change. We are disrupting water quality and marine ecosystems significantly.

If left unaddressed, these impacted ecosystems will grow and damage will become more permanent.

Our approach

Buoy spatial data and dissolved oxygen data

Gps from real-time:

Providing continuous location data through satellite signals and enhancing the spatial context of dissolved oxygen measurements.

x/y Data Table:

Displays dissolved oxygen levels, allowing for a dynamic analysis of the complementary changes between oxygen levels and GPS coordinates.

Our Purpose

Accelerating the energy transition
our society desperately needs by scaling carbon removal

Our Purpose

We do this by driving our society's supply of sustainable, permanent, low cost carbon removal.

The Solution

Our technology

Our cost-effective technology provides carbon removal solutions at a fraction of the
cost
(50X-100X less) compared to Direct Air Capture, emphasizing a primary focus on addressing carbon in Earth's oceans.
Our meticulously crafted technological and scientific process, entirely developed in-house, has several distinct stages, each one crucial to our success.

Our approach involves cultivating specific diatom varieties in self-manufactured photobioreactors
Releasing our selected diaoms into polluted nearshore marine environments. This method competitively advantages our diatoms over harmful algae, rapidly extractingexcess nutrients from the water and mitigatingecological issues like dead zones.
The sediment generated during this process results in allowings for carbon geological storage, supported by scientific literature.
Our approach involves cultivating specific diatom varieties in selfmanufactured photobioreactors
Releasing them into polluted nearshore marine environments. This method competitively advantages our diatoms over harmful algae, rapidly extractingexcess nutrients from the water and mitigatingecological issues like dead zones.
The sediment generated during this process results in allowings for carbon geological storage, supported by scientific literature.

The Solution

Our technology

Our cost-effective technology provides carbon removal solutions at a fraction of the
cost
(50X-100X less) compared to Direct Air Capture, emphasizing a primary focus on addressing carbon in Earth's oceans.
Our meticulously crafted technological and scientific process, entirely developed in-house, comprises several distinct stages, each crucial to our success.

Our approach involves cultivating specific diatom varieties in self-manufactured, proprietary photobioreactors.

We release our selected diatoms into polluted nearshore marine environments. This proprietary method competitively advantages our diatoms over harmful algae, rapidly extracting excess nutrients from the water and mitigating ecological issues like dead zones.

Marine sediment generated during this process allows for carbon geological storage, supported by scientific literature.

Pioneering healthful, sustainable solutions for a brighter tomorrow

Step into our innovation realm, where our commitment to cutting-edge solutions is evident. We aim to redefine environmental standards and making a lasting impact with a relentless pursuit of sustainability.

We design and manufacture lightweight, mobile photobioreactors used to optimize biological activity in natural settings for sustainable solutions.

We embrace geomimicry by releasing materials akin to volcanic ash or dust, fostering beneficial algal blooms in oceans and promoting environmental balance.

Our diverse range of photobioreactors enhance operational efficiency, providing scalable options as we advance our mission.

Optimizing marine sedimentation - what has led to almost all the oil generation we as a society rely upon as well as provide the material for a number of different materials we utilize in life via mining

Outcomes

Our innovative solution restores balance and biodiversity in fragile marine ecosystems by re-establishing the natural phytoplankton food web. Our approach is supported by peer-reviewed literature on the effectiveness of marine sedimentation for carbon removal.

Revitalizing
fisheries

Combating overfishing by boosting fish
populations.

Maintaining Oxygen Concentrations

Reversing the course of decades of runoff
and hypoxia.

Collaborating
with regulators

Working with relevant local, state, and
federal entities at every step.

Partnering
with nature

Enhancing the ecology of organisms

Our Projects

Ongoing ventures showcase

Louisiana
USA, Boothville-Venice

Lillianah addresses environmental problems in the local bays, estuaries, and nearshore marine waters by working and collaborating with local stakeholders like fishermen.  Our dispersals involving native, healthy diatoms supplemented with silica-rich materials enables such work to be carried out effectively. Coastal and nearshore marine issues will be tackled by curbing excess river runoff and affiliated carbon dioxide removal.  Our long-term goal is to have Louisiana become an ideal work hub for our eco-solutions.

Nova Scotia
Multiple Localities

Lillianah establishes the effectiveness of our technology while addressing environmental problems in the local bays, estuaries, and nearshore marine waters by working and collaborating with local stakeholders.  Our dispersals involving native, healthy diatoms supplemented with silica-rich materials, focuses on bodies of water impacted by a loss of marine life. These projects will allow us to optimize our future technological development and approach. Nova Scotia will become the research and developmental hub of our company.

Future Projects
Coming Soon

Lillianah aims to globally enhance nearshore marine regions by reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide, addressing significant environmental challenges. We prioritize safety and efficacy, ensuring positive environmental shifts through our vigilant and accountable approach. Ultimately, our oceans will thrive due to our efforts.

What we do

Explore how we monitor and verify

We offer a one-shop stop to measuring, reporting, and verifying everything we do in the oceans. To do this requires a 5-step integrated approach that is reliable.

Direct
measurements

Robust

Data-rich and shareable

Grounded in the latest science

Modular and scalable

Step 1

How much CDR occurs in surface waters?

-Carbon dioxide is challenging to measurement directly in the ocean (because it has three dissolved forms)
-But photosynthesis produces oxygen for every carbon dioxide molecule consumed
-Dissolved oxygen is fast, cheap and easy to measure              
-Drifting sensor arrays (and eventually autonomous vehicles or fixed infrastructure) deployed to measure       photosynthesis – and so CDR – over time and space

Step 2

How much Organic Carbon is consumed in the water column

- Phytoplankton become lunch for several other groups of organisms in the ocean, but, like us, these consumers ‘breathe’ in oxygen
- We can use the same oxygen sensors to ‘reverse’ to measure oxygen consumption, which is directly related to consumption and respiration of carbon
- This basic technique was developed almost 70 years ago, but is particularly effective and comparatively easy using new technology
- Our oxygen measurements also allow us to track the size and severity of Dead Zones

Step 3

How much carbon reaches sediments

-The difference between these surface and water column measurements equals the flux of carbon to sediments; however, to be even more accurate and conservative, we also directly measure this flux using ‘sediment traps’ and optical sensors (cameras or light beams)
-The latter approach allow us to actually see and count pieces (particles) or carbon sinking in the ocean. These are also rich automated data streams that can be shared and verified
-Combining all of these approaches is state of the art, gives us direct visual confirmation of CDR, and is superior to the use of indirect measurements or modeling of CDR

Step 4

How much carbon is consumed in sediments

-Accumulation of phytoplankton carbon in sediments equals to carbon removed from surface, ocean and atmosphere.
-We know that this can reach high levels, as one can collect marine sediments and literally see the carbon that is present there. Some of this carbon can be thousands to millions of years old.
-However, some carbon will be consumed by (micro)organisms living on and in the ocean floor; their activity should be comparatively slow and they will ‘eat’ preferred forms of carbon.
-We will quantify this using ‘decay curves,’ where we measure consumption of carbon over time, and which has become common practice in some other CDR approaches (e.g., biomass burial).

Step 5

Any co-benefits or drawbacks

- It is important to note that we are specifically working in severely impacted areas – polluted Dead Zones -  rather than in pristine open ocean areas. Overfishing and massive oil and gas extraction can also occur in the areas we work, which means there are already large greenhouse gas fluxes and heavily altered ecosystems in the locations we prefer to work.
- Based on our decades of research, we expect that nitrous oxide production may decrease and will verify this.
- We also have extensive experience in environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis of overall biodiversity, and expect no negative effect on diversity

Step 1

How much CDR occurs in surface waters?

-Carbon dioxide is challenging to measurement directly in the ocean (because it has three dissolved forms)
-But photosynthesis produces oxygen for every carbon dioxide molecule consumed.
-Dissolved oxygen is fast, cheap and easy to measure
-Drifting sensor arrays (and eventually autonomous vehicles or fixed infrastructure) deployed to measure       photosynthesis – and so CDR – over time and space.

Step 2

How much Organic Carbon is consumed in the water column

Phytoplankton are consumed by ocean organisms that, like us, require oxygen.
Oxygen sensors are reversed to measure carbon consumption accurately.
This technique, over 70 years old, is now easier with modern technology.
Oxygen measurements help monitor Dead Zone severity and size.

Step 3

How much carbon reaches sediments

Combining surface and water column measurements with direct techniques like 'sediment traps' and optical sensors provides a state-of-the-art approach to visually confirm Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). This method, counting sinking carbon particles, surpasses the reliability of indirect measurements or modeling for CDR.

Step 4

How much carbon is consumed in sediments

Phytoplankton carbon in sediments signals carbon removal from the surface ocean/atmosphere, potentially containing ancient carbon. Some of this carbon is consumed by ocean floor organisms, and we quantify their slow, selective activity using decay curves. This method, akin to biomass burial in other Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) approaches, allows us to measure carbon consumption over time.

Step 5

Any co-benefits or drawbacks

We work in heavily impacted areas like Dead Zones with overfishing and oil extraction, causing altered ecosystems and significant greenhouse gas fluxes. Our research expects a decrease in nitrous oxide production, to be verified, and our eDNA analysis indicates no adverse effects on overall biodiversity.

Who supports us

Team & Advisors

Get to know us

Courtney Morris
Lab Technician
George Boyd
Lead Engineer
Bennett Brulé
Project Operations Lead
Sherry Solano
Chief Product Officer
Benjamin Slotnick
CEO & Founder
Michael Hoeppner
Communications Advisor
William Bartling
Regulatory/Operations Specialist Advisor
Matt Smith
Financial Advisory

Open Positions

Would you like to join the cause?

Be part of our team and help us provide a better future for the marine ecosystem.

Contact us, and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

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