Why are Smart Offsets™ Intelligent?
SMARToffsets™ are different from traditional carbon offsets because they include an investment into the vertical markets where technological solutions are being developed. Customers are able to select where they want their donations to impact from several different fields; from renewable energy generation to biofuel development. This approach not only corrects the damage caused by vehicle emissions, but also seeks to prevent future damage through innovative solutions.
Traditional Offsets
Your car today creates CO2 and other greenhouse gasses that harm the environment.
Green Investments
By making green technology investments in market specific research areas, we are helping to solve the problem long term.
SmartOffset's
SMARToffsets not only help reduce the impact you are making today, it also contributes to innovation for the future.
Our SMARToffsets™ Projects
Our SMARToffsets™ projects are diversivied research initiatives that are generating future solutions to the current sustainability problems. These projects receive research funding on the behalf of our customers. ControlledCarbon™ matches your offset value with a contribution to one of these projects.
Tubes in the Desert
Tubes in the desert is an alternative fuel research project being conducted at the biodesign institute at ASU by numerous researchers including Dr. Bruce Rittmann, a member of ControlledCarbon™'s Board of Advisors. The project uses cyanobacteria and algae blooms to derive high quality, renewable petroleum substitutes. The success of this project would provide a renewable source of petroleum substitutes, minimizing the need for retrofit to begin utilizing the product in existing vehicle fleets.
Smart Road Materials
This project is researching new materials for road design that reduce urban heat island effect (UHI) and combat rising urban temperatures. By mitigating the urban heat island effect, summer-time peak electricity demand can be reduced, effectively lowering negative environmental impacts.
Hydrogen Retrofit
This project looking to develop systems for the retrofit of existing vehicles to support hydrogen propulsion with minimal structural alteration. The use of hydrogen is currently being investigated by several large automakers. If successful, the product could provide an immediate means of retrofitting existing vehicles to support zero emission propulsion.
Offset Projects
The projects that generate the emission offsets for your vehicle are selected by the ControlledCarbon™ research team, and are all verified by the CCX and ANSI. The projects come from around the world and act to mitigate the increasingly harmful effects of greenhouse gasses of human activities.
Gas to Energy
Gas to energy projects are similar to landfill and farm methane capture projects, however they often feature a generator to better utilize the combustion by producing energy. These projects are often run by small farms and municipal governments, with carbon credit funds being the main source of investment return.
Renewable Energy
Renewable energy projects are projects that produce sustainable, emission-free energy. These projects are often in developing nations and would not be financially possible without the sale of carbon credits. The projects are often wind farms, biomass generation, and hydroelectric electricity generators.
Landfill Gas Capture
Landfill gas capture projects are designed to collect the gas that escapes from decomposing organic materials. The gas is predominantly methane and is combusted into a state that is less damaging to the environment.
Farm Methane Capture
Farm methane capture projects are based around the collection of animal waste, the processing of the waste into methane and organic material, and the combustion of the methane for energy or to reduce it to a state less harmful to the atmosphere
Afforestation
Afforestation projects are designed to protect woodlands as a means of collecting CO2 and sequestering it in the soil. These large protected areas are maintained and secured using funds from the sales of carbon credits.
