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Lydian can make aviation fuel wherever there’s CO2 and electricity
Replacing inexpensive fossil fuels is a tall hurdle, but Lydian thinks it has cracked the problem.
Jet fuel is a modern wonder, allowing commercial airplanes to carry hundreds of passengers halfway around the world and military aircraft to regularly break the speed of sound. A handful of startups have been racing to develop a cheap, efficient way to use electricity to transform CO 2 into an energy-dense hydrocarbon that can be slipped into an aircraft’s fuel tanks without anyone noticing the difference. Europe, for example, is capping the amount of pollution airlines generate, which promises to increase demand for biofuels and e-fuels, even if they’re more expensive than traditional jet fuel.
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