Fueling a movement.

The fact is that the world needs a fuel, not an additive. First generation biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, are only additives. While those products contribute toward reducing our dependence on petroleum and reducing tailpipe emissions, they are simply not replacement fuels. Moreover, they lack the energy density to produce the required torque and thrust necessary for aviation, heavy industrial and agricultural applications.

Diesel and jet fuel are energy dense.

While gasoline and ethanol clearly play a role in the US transportation system, diesel and jet fuel are the world’s transportation fuels of choice. Over the past fifty years, agriculture, heavy trucks, buses, ships, aviation and the military have converted from using gasoline to using more efficient diesel and jet fuels. In recent years, Europe has moved to convert its automobile and light truck fleets to diesel and the rest of the world is beginning to follow the same trend. The US consumes 59 billion gallons of diesel and 25 billion gallons of jet fuel annually. Diesel and jet fuels are the fuels that move the world.

Increasingly, the aviation industry is searching for a biofuels solution, both because of looming carbon taxes as well as consumer demand. Existing jet fuel is very dirty. The world burns 100,000 gallons per minute of high sulfur petroleum jet fuel, dumping the emissions over our cities at high altitudes where its negative impact on the atmosphere is magnified by a factor of 10.