Joule, the pioneer of direct, solar recycling of CO2-to-liquid fuels, announced today that it has gained significant traction in the acceleration and commercialization of environmentally sustainable fuel.
Joule closed out 2014 with major developments across the entire company, leading to the decision to undertake a staged industrialisation process, to culminate in a 1,000-acre production plant starting construction in 2017. This decision comes at a critical moment in global climate change marked by 2014 being the warmest year on the planet, further underscoring the need for large scale industrial companies to engage in rapidly enabling scalable CO2 mitigating solutions.
Joule has developed groundbreaking pathways for fuel production through modified biocatalysts and demonstrated production of both ethanol and diesel via engineered metabolic pathways. In addition, during 2014, Joule systematically worked to ensure scalability of its process and completed successive end-to-end production of CO2-to-liquid fuels at its scaled demonstration facility in Hobbs, New Mexico. As an industry first, Joule has developed proprietary methods to effectively control contamination in its production process while showing increased efficiencies.
The first end-to-end scaled production run, which took place in October following two years of pilot testing, produced significant and record-levels of ethanol. This pivotal event shows that conversion of CO2 directly to carbon-neutral fuels is possible in the near future, which would significantly impact humanity’s ability to combat climate change on a global scale.
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