Emergy is an early stage startup developing an environmentally friendly and versatile patent pending manufacturing process to produce advanced porous carbon materials for the energy storage, filtration, carbon capture and other cleantech applications. Unlike conventional methods that use harvested biomass, coal, or expensive polymers and requiring resource intensive top-down production processes, Emergy utilizes an extremely efficiency and controlled bottom up biological process to sustainably produce low cost advanced carbon materials with higher efficiency and better product control than the competition. Taking a bottom up approach not only saves capital and operation costs, energy, and resources, it also allows for tailored properties from the onset, customized for each application, ultimately resulting in high performance and added value to the customer.