SUSTAINABILITY IS KEY TO OUR FOOD SECURITY AND HEALTH OF OUR PLANET
The world population is projected to reach 10 billion within the next 30 years and increasing needs for food during the same period will skyrocket by 70%. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that global meat production is expected to double by 2050, but even this effort will fall short of anticipated demands. Clearly, novel approaches to new food sources and alternative foods will be paramount to mitigate environmental damage caused by traditional production methods across land and ocean ecosystems.
At AlPower we are guided by science-based principles that enhance environmental stewardship and sustainability for our planet in the 21st century. AlPower’s algae-based technology is clearly eco-friendly to the air we breathe. This bio-based approach uses water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide (CO2) as inputs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve land utilization, decrease water use and nutrient pollution, as well as prevent overfishing.
Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) credits are important tools for the energy sector to promote sustainability.
AlPower’s technology can generate substantial CO2e credits,
reaching up to 349,000 tons per agri-plant per year.
This remarkable achievement is made possible by direct sequestration of carbon dioxide and also by preventing carbon dioxide emissions due to replacing gray hydrogen manufacturing to green hydrogen, replacing fossil fuel to green hydrogen, and replacing beef production with green and sustainable alternative protein.
PROTEIN
AlPower is poised to contribute to a sustainable planet as our novel protein technology production can reduce greenhouse gases and use less water per unit land areas vs conventional soy or beef production methods.
AlPower’s technology can reduce greenhouse gas 3 to 35-fold vs conventional soy or beef production systems. For land use efficiency, algae is a staggering 565 to 140,000-fold more efficient in protein production for each acre of land used vs soy or beef!
Plant-based meat uses substantially less land than conventional beef production and produces up to 90 percent less greenhouse gas emissions than conventional methods. Water use is 72 to 99 percent more efficient with plant-based foods vs standard beef production practices. In aquatic systems, plant-based meat technology produces up to 91 percent less nutrient pollution compared to traditional methods. Plant-based meat is antibiotic free and eliminates the buildup of resistance to these compounds in aquatic environments.
Medium-scale protein production can greatly expand plant-based protein markets making vegi burgers and seafood more affordable and mainstream while saving our planet.
A 250 ac agri-plant can generate 234,000 tons in CO2e credits by replacing 21.4 million pounds of beef.
New and established seafood companies are acknowledging increased consumer demand for healthy ocean ecosystems and sustainable seafood alternatives. AlPower’s novel plant-based protein can help create eco-friendly seafood alternatives that help reduce overfishing.
HYDROGEN FUEL
Green hydrogen will play a key role in the decarbonization of energy production, transportation, and storage. Major auto manufacturers are announcing a huge boost in hydrogen vehicle production by 2030. Large cities are developing fleets of taxis and waste collection vehicles that run on hydrogen fuel. Green hydrogen will also be key for mining vehicles, trains, aircrafts, trucks, buses, and even maritime transport.
One fifth of all carbon dioxide emissions are created by automobiles. Current production of gray hydrogen from natural gas also generates large amounts of carbon dioxide, one molecule per two molecules of hydrogen. Additionally, beef production generates substantial quantities of carbon dioxide.
AlPower aims to serve as a leader using hydrogen in the decarbonization of heavy industry and transportation. Our plant-based protein process can serve also in carbon reduction in the meat industry. As such, Al-Power’s agri-plant technology can generate large amounts of carbon credits. An agri-plant with a size of 250 acres can capture 7,000 tons carbon dioxide per year. Moreover, such an agri-plant can generate CO2e credits of 349,000 tons carbon dioxide (17,550 tons, 88,400 tons, and 234,000 tons CO2e credits from replacing gray hydrogen with green hydrogen manufacturing, fossil fuel to green hydrogen fuel in light duty vehicles, and beef to plant-based protein, respectively).
These combined CO2e credits add up to an equivalent of carbon dioxide emitted by coal power plants of ~ 300 Million KWh capacity.
AlPower will procure contracts with carbon dioxide-emitting plants to reduce their carbon footprint. Leveraging 100 agri-plants, AlPower can generate up to 18 MMT in CO2e credits per year.
AlPower can partner with established industries to help meet EPA requirements for reduced greenhouse gases because the carbon dioxide credits from AlPower’s technology are substantial, reaching up to 349,999 tons CO2e per agri-plant. Because AlPower plans to build networks consisting of numerous agri-plants, the amounts of CO2e credits will be huge!
