Aug 01, 2024
The startup captures and uses atmospheric CO2 at costs that are an order of magnitude lower than existing processes, relying only on water and renewable electricity to produce SAF.
A better path to SAF, from beginning to end.
We make jet fuel from just air, water, and renewable energy. And we combine carbon capture and utilization into a single process, dramatically reducing the amount of energy required to produce SAF, enabling a truly affordable, carbon-negative drop-in solution.
(1) Air
(2) CO2 + H2O
Air Contactor
(3) Energy
Liquid Bicarbonate Electrolyzer
(4) CO + H2
Syngas
(5) Mixture of hydrocarbons
Fischer Tropsch Reactor
(6) Fuel
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Benefits of our process1Lower cost of delivered carbon
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2Lower CapEx
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3Simpler Plant
What we provide
An infinitely scalable pathway to SAF
Today’s leading sustainable aviation fuels suffer from the same challenge: sourcing. We’re bypassing current extraction pathways, capturing carbon from the air.
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The world’s first direct air capture and utilization system
Our technology uses a liquid bicarbonate electrolyzer to effectively integrate capture and conversion into one step — a paradigm shift in carbon utilization.
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A truly carbon-negative fuel supply chain
We source and produce CO2 from the air so cheaply that we can outcompete other pathways for capturing carbon and generate 100% carbon-neutral fuel, significantly cutting the emissions of flying.
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Our point of view
Air travel is non-negotiable.
We need to stay connected.
So solving aviation’s carbon footprint is also non-negotiable. We’ve begun the evolution to SAF, but we need to complete it. We need an accelerated solution that keeps us connected while reducing the carbon we spend to stay that way.
So we asked, how can we get to true zero? A viable alternative to conventional aviation fuel with no carbon footprint? We scoured the carbon utilization literature and found a possible solution. We figured out how to translate it and scale it for the real world. We quit our jobs and committed. And here we are.
We are Sora Fuel.
The future of flight depends on a truly carbon-negative fuel source.
For the foreseeable future, planes will continue to need liquid hydrocarbon fuels to fly, and those have always come from fossil fuels. SAFs are hydrocarbon fuels as well, but the carbon, energy, and hydrogen needed to create them come from feedstocks other than fossil fuels.
It’s these feedstocks that really matter. Some degrade the environment, some are too expensive, some aren’t available in sufficient quantities, and some create as much CO2 as they save.
Only one feedstock — air — solves all of these issues.
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Benefits of air-sourced SAF1Unlimited feedstock
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2Doesn’t degrade the environment
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3Reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 100%