Prometheus Fuels: Our First Product

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April 30, 2025

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(Prometheus Fuels) We’re proud to announce our first product — a 99.9% pure, carbon neutral methanol fuel that is molecularly identical to fossil methanol, but made from air. Orders for our first million tons of the fuel are sold out.

What do we mean by “molecularly identical”? Here’s an FTIR analysis that compares Prometheus methanol to fossil methanol.

FTIR, or Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, is a common lab test to identify fuels. It shines a beam of infrared light through the fuel sample to measure how much light gets absorbed at different frequencies. Then it matches the absorption pattern to patterns of known substances.

In the chart above, Sigma — a laboratory standard for fossil methanol — is the black line. Our methanol is the red line that you almost can’t see given how closely it matches the fossil methanol fingerprint.

What you’re seeing are two kinds of the same fuel made from CO2. It’s just that one was made from CO2 extracted from the ground while ours was made from CO2 captured from air.

Of all the fuels we can make, why start with methanol?

The answer in a word: versatility. Methanol can be turned into everything from plastics to electricity to really any other kind of fuel. It’s liquid at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, making it easy to store and transport. It’s also a known commodity with an established market and global logistics network. Make it carbon neutral as we do and now you’ve unlocked:

> a sustainable aviation fuel [SAF] with a carbon intensity score of zero

> a feedstock for carbon negative plastics

> a marine fuel that zeroes out carbon emissions for cargo and passenger ships

> a drop-in gasoline that zeros out carbon emissions from ICE cars and meets regulatory standards for immediate use

But methanol’s killer app may be methanol-to-power. You’ve no doubt seen the hockey stick graphs that show how explosive electricity demand is projected to be over the next five to ten years. Manufacturing, data centers, electrification, crypto exchanges. All are forcing a market whose growth was nearly flat for two decades to suddenly make big quantities of new electrons at hypersonic speed.

And then there’s AI. Historically, armies fighting ground battles were limited by their supplies of food and ammunition. The developers competing to deploy AI in the global “arms race” are constrained by their supply of electrons. Compute uses a breathtaking amount of power. Divining just how much electricity AI data centers will need in the near future has become a wild game of speculation. Estimates range from approx. 30 GW to 325 GW by 2030.

So how does one pull a few dozen new gigawatts of electricity or possibly ten times that amount out of a hat at the speed and scale needed to meet this demand?

The world’s electric grids aren’t up to it. Even if they had the cash to upgrade their infrastructure — a cool $720 billion by Goldman Sachs’ estimate — grids would need to overhaul a permitting process that currently stalls new power connection requests in a queue whose average wait time is five years.

Fission and fusion are too slow. Geothermal, too landlocked. And we all know the rap on renewables plus batteries — peak availability when demand is lowest, intermittency, and the inability to store for more than a few hours.

We believe we have a better answer.

Turn the world’s cheapest, cleanest, most plentiful source of energy — electrons from off-grid solar — into a carbon neutral methanol e-fuel that can be transported anywhere in the world and turned back into electrons at any time.

All you need to execute on this is:

1. a once-in-a-century innovative technology for turning the electrical energy of solar into the chemical energy of liquid fuel that is capable of operating 100% off-grid and behind-the-meter so as to collect electrons from the cheapest solar locations on the planet. Read about what makes our tech a once-in-a-century innovation here.

2. the aforementioned global logistics network of trucks, rail, pipelines, planes, ships, etc. to carry said electrons preserved as fuel to be used far and wide or stored indefinitely.

Our solution yields exactly what hyperscalers seek — 24/7, steady, independent, clean, quality power that lets them grow as big and as fast as they want without increasing their carbon emissions.

It also happens to be a silver bullet for long distance and duration energy storage.

But this approach only works if the cost of the methanol fuel is low. Why? Because businesses can’t afford to lose their competitive edge in the market and drivers can’t afford to pay more at the pump — something we at Prometheus have understood and designed our tech platform to achieve from the start.

How low? The price to match or beat is that of fossil methanol at $1.81 per gallon or $600 per ton. Our price to produce? Less than $1.50 per gallon or $500 per ton*. Which means not only can we make the world’s lowest-cost methanol that’s carbon neutral. We can compete with fossil methanol to make the world’s lowest cost methanol, period.

As evidence of our methanol’s appeal, we’re also proud to announce that our first commercial project, to make 100,000 tons of the fuel per year, is sold out for the next decade. We’ll reveal our customers soon.

Oh yeah, one more reason we chose methanol. It makes a pretty fantastic racing fuel. Stay tuned. READ MORE

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Prometheus Fuels Hits Major Commercial Milestone (Prometheus Fuels/Business Wire)

Excerpt from Prometheus Fuels/Business Wire: First company in the world to produce 100% carbon-neutral e-Fuel from air and off-grid renewable power -- Prometheus Fuels' Titan Forge Alpha prototype has successfully integrated a full-scale 50-cell Faraday Reactor validating its core technology at TRL 9, the highest benchmark for real-world deployment and system maturity. With this milestone, Prometheus becomes the only company capable of producing low-cost carbon-neutral e-Fuel using direct air capture (DAC) and intermittent renewable energy, fully off-grid.

Prometheus Fuels (Prometheus), the company making low-cost carbon-neutral fuels from direct air capture and renewable electricity, today announced it has reached commercial readiness for its proprietary e-Fuel production system. The company’s Titan Forge Alpha prototype has successfully integrated a full-scale 50-cell Faraday Reactor validating its core technology at TRL 9, the highest benchmark for real-world deployment and system maturity.

With this milestone, Prometheus becomes the only company capable of producing low-cost carbon-neutral e-Fuel using direct air capture (DAC) and intermittent renewable energy, fully off-grid.

With this milestone, Prometheus becomes the only company capable of producing low-cost carbon-neutral e-Fuel using direct air capture (DAC) and intermittent renewable energy, fully off-grid. The company also stands apart from other e-fuel producers in not needing subsidies or hydrogen. Its Titan Forge Alpha plant, the world’s first operational DAC synthetic fuel facility, is already generating e-methanol from air and solar power.

Next up: Titan Fuel Forge One, the company’s first commercial-scale fuel production system. It will use the same proven stack architecture and kick off a new era of production for Prometheus. To date, the company has pre-sold more than 11 million tons of e-Fuel to be delivered over the next decade, reflecting strong demand from global energy buyers and deep market confidence in the company’s technology.

The Faraday Reactor, a hydrocarbon electrolyzer that converts CO2 from an integrated DAC tower directly to fuel, is core to Prometheus’ system. Designed to operate on variable power inputs, the system thrives in remote, off-grid environments where wind and solar energy are abundant, unlocking low-cost, distributed fuel production at a global scale.

“This milestone marks a turning point, not just for Prometheus, but for the future of energy,” said Rob McGinnis, founder and CEO of Prometheus. “We’ve invented and built an integrated DAC and fuel synthesis system that captures carbon from the air, runs on renewable energy, and produces e-Fuels that cost less than fossil at scale. It’s the kind of innovation that doesn’t just move the needle, it resets the standard. After years of development and validation, we’re now ready to scale and meet the world’s growing demand for energy.”

As AI workloads surge and data centers multiply, demand is rising for reliable, around-the-clock clean power. Solar is now the cheapest form of energy in the world, but its full potential has been limited by challenges in capture, transport, and storage. Batteries and grid infrastructure can’t fully solve the problem — especially in remote, fast-growing, or under-connected regions.

Prometheus’ patented technology turns cheap, abundant solar power into carbon-neutral fuel that works as firm, dispatchable baseload energy. It can be stored indefinitely, delivered anywhere without new transmission lines, and used to stabilize grids, power AI and data centers, and fuel global demand for steady, low-cost clean energy.

“We knew we had to be able to beat fossil fuels on cost from the beginning and that’s what we’ve achieved,” McGinnis added. “We don’t need subsidies, we don’t need hydrogen, we don’t need biogenic point-source CO2, and we don’t need the grid. We can turn the lowest cost energy in the world from solar in the best locations into liquid fuels that can meet the fast-growing need for new power. We’re ready to scale to meet real demand.”

The company’s core technology is patent-protected and has undergone third-party technical validation in preparation for full-scale commercial deployment. To see a demo of Prometheus fuel powering the company’s 1968 Mustang Fastback, the “Promethean Stang,” visit: https://bit.ly/Promethean-Stang-Reveal. To learn more about Prometheus visit: https://prometheusfuels.com/.

About Prometheus Fuels

Prometheus is the global leader in carbon-neutral fuels made from direct air capture and renewable electricity to power AI data centers, factories, ships, vehicles, and aircraft. The company’s patented technology produces fuel at fossil fuel prices without subsidies, transforming energy production. Designed to run off-grid, Prometheus offers a scalable source of new power, transforming intermittent renewable energy into firm dispatchable 24/7 power, anywhere it is needed. Backed by top-tier investors including Maersk, BMW, Y Combinator, Paul Graham, Jaan Tallinn, John and Patrick Collison, Garrett Camp, and Tom Preston-Werner, Prometheus is redefining the future of energy. Learn more at prometheusfuels.com. READ MORE