DRAFTED BY SHUHAM SHARMA
Fulcrum’s president and chief executive officer, Eric Pryor, is launching an entirely new low-cost, domestically produced, net-zero carbon transportation fuel that will contribute to the aviation industry’s carbon reduction goals, as well as energy security and climate stability in the United States.
Combined with Fulcrum’s operations of its Feedstock Processing Facility, which converts landfill waste into a clean, prepared feedstock, Fulcrum has successfully harvested the carbon embedded in the waste and completed its transformation into a hydrocarbon syngas, while achieving the quality and expected conversion of recycled carbon. Sierra plant operations will now move on to the final step in Fulcrum’s waste to fuels process, converting the syngas into liquid fuel.
The Sierra BioFuels Plant, located outside of Reno, Nevada, includes both a Feedstock Processing Facility and a Biorefinery with the capacity to convert approximately 175,000 tons of prepared landfill waste into approximately 11 million gallons of renewable syncrude annually, which will then be upgraded to renewable transportation fuel. With Fulcrum’s standardized, scalable and financeable plant approach, the Company has positioned its growth program to capitalize on this operations success.
“Fulcrum’s approach will yield a cost-competitive, long-lasting aviation fuel that is a viable alternative to petroleum-based fuel. Our sustainable aviation fuel will have an influence on tackling climate change since it has a net-zero carbon score and the ability to be produced in big quantities. We’re looking forward to getting this gasoline on the market and into the hands of our airline partners “Pryor said
The Company’s waste to fuels plants will assist address two significant and urgent global environmental challenges at the same time: reducing carbon emissions from the aviation industry and reducing garbage sent to landfills. Producing a low-carbon local transportation fuel on a large scale will also lessen the country’s reliance on foreign oil.
