Sucking up CO2Turning CO₂ into jet fuel.
Big Picture
Even in a future of 100% clean electricity, many industries, from international air travel to chemical manufacturing, will very likely continue emitting vast amounts of carbon dioxide for decades to come, and it will need to be captured. Voluntary and compliance markets will no doubt play a role, but some of the incentive to capture CO₂ will derive from its commercial applicability to large-scale industrial processes.
How it Works
Twelve builds devices that bolt onto any source of CO₂, and with only water and electricity as inputs, transforms it into some of the world’s most critical chemical products. It’s like industrial photosynthesis. Today their focus is on the production of carbon monoxide (CO), a $4 billion market. Their CO is indistinguishable from what the chemical industry makes with fossil fuels.
Unfair Advantage
Their innovation is in the architecture of the membrane electrode assembly. It enables a drop-in technology that converts commercially produced hardware into a CO2-splitting machine capable of making at least 16 chemicals that form the building blocks of countless consumer goods, building materials, and jet fuel. So at once, Twelve can decarbonize industries while making high-margin products.
16
Different chemicals
converted from captured CO₂
NICHOLAS FLANDERS CEO & CO-FOUNDER
Nicholas worked in McKinsey’s cleantech practice. He has an MS/MBA from Stanford University.
ETOSHA CAVE CTO & CO-FOUNDER
Etosha received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
Twelve Raises $130M to Reduce Emissions
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Microsoft and Alaska Airlines are working with this startup to make clean jet fuel
CNBC
This jet fuel was made by sucking carbon out of the air
Fast Company