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StormFisher Bought a $1.5 Billion Clean-Fuel Headache for $17.5 Million - Now It Has to Make the Math Work
A Canadian project developer picked up a stranded Quebec fuel complex at a steep discount, scrapped its original process and bet on e-methanol. The clever part is reuse; the hard part is turning cheap infrastructure into bankable fuel.
The Fuel Startup Betting a Molecule Can Just Float Out of the Tank
Most biofuels get stuck in the same trap: make the alcohol, then spend a fortune pulling it out of the water. A four-person Houston team engineered a yeast whose product simply volatilizes away - and they think that changes the math.
The 133-Year-Old Company That Broke Itself Apart to Chase Jet Engines
General Electric spent a century as America's everything-company. In 2024 it broke itself into three and kept only the part that flies - and Wall Street decided the pieces were worth more than the whole ever was.
Terragia Biofuel
Terragia Biofuel is a New Hampshire climate-tech startup turning non-food plant waste into cost-competitive, low-carbon ethanol using engineered thermophilic bacteria. Its consolidated bioprocessing (CBP) approach skips the expensive enzymes and thermochemical pretreatment that have historically sunk cellulosic biofuel economics, promising an 8x shorter payback period at 10x smaller scale. Spun out of Professor Lee Lynd's decades of research at Dartmouth, Terragia aims to make biofuels for hard-to-electrify transport - aviation, shipping, and long-haul trucking - that can actually compete with fossil fuels.
Twelve
Twelve is a carbon transformation company that uses an electrochemical reactor to turn captured CO2, water, and renewable electricity into the same chemicals and fuels usually drilled out of the ground - including E-Jet, a drop-in sustainable aviation fuel. Founded by Stanford-trained electrochemists, it is building the first industrial-scale CO2 electrolyzer plant in Moses Lake, Washington.