A company that was founded in Kamloops is hoping to take advantage of a new technology it created that separates oxygen from ordinary air and turns it into a natural cleanser.

CEO of GC Green Carbon, Viva Cunliffe, says they developed a new technology that uses a ceramic membrane to separate oxygen from ordinary air and turn it into a natural cleanser called hydroxyl. She says it’s an ancient cleanser that’s been around since there was water on the earth. “It attaches to methane and starts to break it down. It’s the number one reason that we’ve had methane being removed in the background for us since the beginning of methane in the atmosphere.”

Cunliffe says the goal is for hydroxyl to be dispersed through communities and split it between neighborhoods and a larger regional facility that would address emissions on a more bulked up scale. “We have devised a way to actually be able to make it in a relatively concentrated stream and offer that as a service to communities that are looking to reduce damages from climate damages and also to help people with air quality in the local area.”

“It does actually do pretty much everything else in the atmosphere including attaching to particulate matter, weighing it down a little bit so it can be removed from the atmosphere.”

Cunliffe says one ideal place to install these approximately 200 pound units would be on hydro poles on busy highways to help clean the air around them.  She adds they want to work with BC Hydro to install these systems.

By Jeff Andreas