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Exclusive: Lydian Labs can make aviation fuel wherever there’s CO2 and electricity | TechCrunch

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Lydian Labs uses electricity to transform CO2 into an energy-dense hydrocarbon that can be slipped into an aircraft's fuel tanks without anyone noticing the difference.

Commercial aviation is responsible for 2.5% of all carbon pollution, a share that’s likely to grow as other industries electrify.

The startup has received a DARPA award to develop the technology.

Lydian will run the pilot for a few years , gathering data, while building a commercial-scale plant that it hopes to finish in 2027 . If Lydian can maintain that sort of momentum, and the world can reduce its fossil fuel use, e-fuels might be the last hydrocarbon standing..

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