# [[Twelve]] ## Company Overview Website: https://www.twelve.co/ Twelve is a 'carbon transformation' company, which uses recycled carbon from CO2 in the air to create essential products. This eliminates reliance on fossil fuels for carbon (in the form of petrochemicals), which cause CO2 emissions and accelerate climate change. Twelve partners with businesses to support their carbon transformation by replacing the petrochemicals in products and supply chains with their CO2Made® materials and fuels. ### The Technology: O12 Twelve has developed an electrochemical reactor which performs 'industrial photosynthesis' - it uses propriety catalysts to transform CO2 into new products, using just water and electricity as inputs. O12 achieves the same CO2 transforming power as 37,000 trees in the module the size of a suitcase. ### Competitive Differentiators - Twelve's competitive advantage is it's capabilities in carbon transformation - which is distinct from carbon capture and storage (CCS) and utilisation (CCU) as it **eliminates ** the need for fossil carbon in chemicals, materials and fuels - Whilst CCS involves storing or mineralising captured CO2 emissions undergroud, Carbon transformation involves changing CO2 into more commercially useful forms of carbon - Carbon transformation achieves a 1:1 replacement of fossil carbon in the products that are made - enabling **a reduction in emissions and a long-term transition away from fossil fuels** - This creates a **market-driven solution** to carbon emissions, as a new revenue stream is created from waste ### Growth Potential Using CO₂ in place of fossil fuels in Twelve’s target applications could address nearly [10 percent](https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/report/opportunities-and-limits-co2-recycling-circular-carbon-economy-techno-economics-critical) of global carbon emissions. #### Risks - xx - xx - xx #### [Linchpins](app://obsidian.md/Linchpins) - xxx - xx ##### Sources 1. Link [↩︎](app://obsidian.md/index.html#fnref-1-e31dc5fee414a4f0) https://www.twelve.co/ --- Tags: [#value1pager](app://obsidian.md/index.html#value1pager) #wip #pn Links: [Value One Pagers](app://obsidian.md/Value%20One%20Pagers) ---