Biofuel vs. CO2-GTL

Most of the renewable alternatives to fossil fuel today, such as ethanol and biodiesel, are biofuels based on terrestrial crops such as corn and sugar cane. These sources of biofuel are not sustainable as they compete with world food supplies and require large amounts of energy and time to grow, process, and ferment the crops into biofuels. Additionally, these biofuels cannot be used directly in existing vehicles. They are either blended into gasoline in small amounts or require new or substantially modified vehicles and fuel delivery infrastructure. Most importantly, it is simply not possible to grow enough terrestrial crops to replace 85 million barrels of petroleum the world consumes every day.

We believe our CO2-GTL technology is the most direct and efficient way to produce sustainable liquid fuels. The diagram below illustrates the difference between a Biomass to Fuel lifecycle and a CO2-GTL Fuel lifecycle.