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Lewis Dutel Is Taking a Fermentation Shortcut to the Fuel Tank
The Houston engineer spent years solving hard problems underground. At VIA BioFuels, he is betting that one volatile molecule can make renewable fuel simpler to produce and easier for existing infrastructure to use.
Nicholas Flanders
Nicholas Flanders is the Co-Founder and CEO of Twelve, a carbon transformation company that converts CO2, water, and renewable electricity into sustainable aviation fuel and carbon-neutral chemicals. A Stanford MBA and former McKinsey consultant, Flanders co-founded Twelve (originally Opus 12) in 2015 alongside scientists Dr. Etosha Cave and Dr. Kendra Kuhl to commercialize breakthrough electrochemical CO2 conversion technology developed at Stanford. The company has raised over $790 million, including a $645 million financing round in 2024 led by TPG Rise Climate, and is building AirPlant One - the world's first commercial-scale e-fuels facility - in Moses Lake, Washington.