About

What We Do

We develop and deploy the lowest-cost commercial direct air capture systems in the world.

Our direct air capture (DAC) filters are powered by a patented technology that targets and removes carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the air all around us. Each commercial scale DAC system will remove around 10,000 tons of CO₂ from the air per year (that’s equivalent to the work of nearly half-a-million trees!).

Why it Matters

The future of our planet is at stake.

Global temperatures are rapidly rising because of increasing levels of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

CO₂ is the primary greenhouse gas responsible.

Humans put nearly 40 billion tons of CO₂ into the air every year.

It’s our job to remove it.

Mosaic is building a cleaner future for people and the planet.

According to the latest report from the International Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), we must halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030
in order to avoid catastrophic global warming of +1.5ºC. To do this,
corporate and global leaders must take advantage of the variety of
carbon-reduction solutions available — from switching to alternative
fuels to investing in carbon-dioxide removal (CDR) technologies — to
reduce new and existing CO₂ emissions from the atmosphere.

Direct air capture is a leading carbon-reduction solution because of
its many benefits:

Versatile: DAC plants can be located anywhere in the world
because CO₂ levels in the air are similar everywhere in the
world. Hot or cold climates, low or high elevations, close or far
from emission sources—DAC facilities are extremely location versatile.

Efficient: Generally, DAC plants require less space and land usage than other carbon-reduction solutions. On a land area of
less than 0.5 acres, Mosaic’s commercial DAC system can eliminate
10,000 tons of CO₂ from the air every year.

Scalable: DAC systems are highly modular, designed so that a
single CO₂ filtration unit can be stacked (like blocks) and
assembled into virtually any size to achieve megaton-CO₂
capturing capacity.

Measurable: DAC systems make it easy to accurately measure and
track how much CO₂ is captured.

How it Works

Carbon in, Clean Air out

1. Contaminated air in : Energy efficient fans pull CO₂-rich air
directly from the atmosphere into the Mosaic DAC system.

2. Filter : Our proprietary filters, powered by a patented Metal
Organic Framework (MOF) technology, selectively bind and capture
more than 90% of the CO₂ in the air that passes through the
system.

3. Clean air out : Filtered air exits the system and returns to the
atmosphere with drastically reduced levels of CO₂.

Take a look inside our DAC filter, to see how our patented MOF technology works:

Once captured by the Mosaic system, the pure CO₂ can be permanently sequestered underground or utilized in product manufacturing.

Sequestration

Putting CO₂ back where it belongs.

The sequestration process involves permanently placing the captured CO₂ into rock far beneath the earth’s surface or back into empty oil wells, where it came from in the first place.

Utilization

Putting CO₂ to work.

Utilization is when captured CO₂ is recycled and used as an ingredient in a manufacturing process, such as that of food and beverages, building materials, chemicals, fuels, or fertilizers. Utilization can range from a carbon-neutral process when used in products like beverages that quickly re-release the CO₂ into the air, to a carbon-negative process when used in products like concrete or plastic that sequester the CO₂ in the material for decades. Either way, it recycles existing CO₂ rather than introducing new, additive CO₂ into manufacturing processes.

Air flow

CO2

Desorption

Purer CO2

Mosaic Materials

How It’s Different

Mosaic does DAC better.

We’re able to provide the lowest-cost DAC in the world because our system uses less material and less energy to effectively capture CO₂.

Using less material and less energy to capture more CO₂ means we can offer commercial-scale DAC at a much lower cost than other DAC providers.

Our Team

From Lab to Large-Scale

Mosaic began in a lab at UC Berkeley as the brainchild of a professor and a PhD student. We’ve spent the last decade developing and refining our specialized CO₂ DAC technology and expanding our team across California and Texas. In 2022, Mosaic was acquired by the world’s leading energy technology company, Baker Hughes. We are now on an accelerated path to commercializing large-scale, commercial DAC systems.

This is Us

Along with our partners, our team of 30 (and growing!) are working to develop and deploy DAC systems around the globe.

Manufacturing and Materials

Join the teams refining our manufacturing process and perfecting our materials and their performance

Engineering

Join the team building our DAC systems.

Operations

Join the team who keeps our business moving forward.

Want to Join Us?

We’re always looking for smart, innovative people to help us achieve our goal of removing 5% of the world’s carbon emissions by 2030.