Environmental Responsibility

One of our core commitments is to environmental stewardship. We believe that we have a responsibility to deploy our projects and manage our ongoing operations in the most environmentally-responsible manner possible.

Our company was formed with this as one of our basic guiding principles, a fact that is reflected even in our name.

We deliver on this promise in a number of ways.

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Replacing one fossil fuel source with another only buys us time and prolongs the onset of the inevitable. We have an opportunity to build "future-proof" infrastructure that can competitively meet the economic needs of today, while at the same time constructing the built infrastructure that will be required to deliver high-efficiency renewable fuels from the sustainable energy sources of tomorrow.

Careful and responsible use of coal can provide the economic stability necessary to build markets for the sustainable feedstocks of the future. The technologies used for synthetic fuel production are fundamentally different from those used in conventional coal fired power generation. Because we use closed-loop chemical processes with extremely selective (down to parts-per-billion) gas cleanup systems, as opposed to open furnaces, synthetic fuel production delivers a fundamentally superior environmental footprint to any other use of coal.

Our fuels are literally manufactured molecule-by-molecule from high-purity hydrogen and carbon. Because of the lack of impurities present in elements that go into the manufacture of our fuels, and the specificity of the chemistry involved, there are very few impurities present in the finished product. The end-result is an extremely clean-burning fuel; vastly improved tailpipe emissions. Fischer Tropsch synthetic fuels are approaching the technical limit of the cleanest diesel fuel commercially possible.

We believe that to be sustainable, the use of renewable resources must proceed at a rate equal to or less than the rate of natural replenishment. We also believe that to be sustainable, the use of non-renewable resources must proceed at a rate that is declining, and that the rate of decline must be greater than or equal to the rate of depletion. 

These natural constraints guide our plant design, and our business targets for feedstock procurement.

Synthetic fuels processes have the unique capacity to produce fuels with a negative lifecycle carbon footprint. By combining carbon capture and sequestration with sufficiently high blends of biomass in the feedstock mix, synthetic fuels manufacturing combining gasification and carbon capture and sequestration is the only method we are aware of  capable of commercially producing net-energy-positive transportation fuels manufacture with a negative lifecycle carbon footprint.