Carbon capture company to break ground on alternative fuel plant in Moses Lake

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Washington state passed a tax incentive bill last month courting developers of sustainable aviation fuels. Now a company has stepped forward to become the first to take the state up on its offer.

Berkeley, California-based Twelve announced Monday from the Paris Air Show it plans to build a commercial-scale facility to produce its fuel product, called E-Jet, from carbon dioxide in the central Washington city of Moses Lake.

The company will break ground on July 11, according to the Washington State Department of Commerce.

“Commercial-scale production of E-Jet fuel is a major milestone in our mission of creating a world run on air,” Twelve co-founder and CEO Nicholas Flanders said in a news release. “Washington is the perfect location for our facility, with its abundant renewable energy resources to power our carbon transformation process and longstanding global leadership in the aviation industry.”

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2023/06/20/twelve-plans-saf-facility-in-moses-lake.html

[Miguelito Loveless]

1. The major catch with e-fuels

is how much energy is needed to make them, where the energy comes from, and how much the ultimate product will cost. Simple physics means you are going to spend more energy to make the fuel than you will get out of it. Using fossil fuels to provide power for the creation process (electricity produced by coal or methane) defeats the purpose, and no airline will touch it if it costs 2x-3x more than standard aviation fuel.