Carbon-Negative Aviation Fuels

Sora Fuel closed a $14.6 million funding round to build a pilot production facility for sustainable aviation fuel produced from captured CO₂, water and renewable energy. The Boston-based company developed a process that pulls carbon directly from ambient air and converts it into fuel in a single step. This eliminates the most expensive stage of conventional direct air capture technology.

The approach brings carbon capture costs down to under $50 per ton, roughly one-tenth of those for standard methods, with a target price for finished sustainable aviation fuel below $5 per gallon. The pilot facility is expected to scale from gallons to barrels of daily output within 18 to 24 months.

This shows how next-generation carbon capture technology could make clean jet fuel more affordable.

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