Cool Planet BioFuel’s technology converts low-grade biomass, such as grass and woodchips, into high-grade fuel.
This process also produces a byproduct, which can be used to sequester carbon and act as a soil conditioner, and this makes the CoolPlanetBioFuels product a negative carbon fuel.
Cool Planet’s negative carbon fuel can be made from virtually any type of biomass.
The first fleet test fuel is made from Mid-Western sourced corn cobs, a plentiful crop byproduct.
The company’s first road tests involve combining negative carbon fuel blendstock with California standard E-10 gasoline to meet California’s 2020 goal of a 10% reduction in carbon intensity versus today’s standard pump gas.
CARB branch former chief responsible for the development of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard Dean Simeroth said Cool Planet’s cellulosic based renewable gasoline is the first such technology to be granted CARB approval for fleet testing.
