Innovating Carbon Capture from First Principles using Artificial Intelligence and the Molecular Biology Toolkit

[Mike Landmeier]

Innovating Carbon Capture from First Principles using Artificial Intelligence and the Molecular Biology Toolkit

The Carbon Capture Brain, continuously refined by improving AI systems and constrained by thermodynamic reality, is designed to identify practical pathways, materials solutions, and system architectures as frontier AI systems advance. Materials remain the present bottleneck; AI is already beginning to accelerate materials discovery and optimization. The combination of first-principles reasoning, the Molecular Biology Toolkit, and rapidly improving artificial intelligence offers the clearest route to gigaton-scale, high-efficiency carbon removal that simultaneously supports a high-energy civilization.

Thermodynamics is forever. The opportunity is to align technology with it.