Syntholene delivers chemically-superior and carbon-negative substitute fuels, viable across the most difficult-to-decarbonize sectors of our economy.
Aviation is our highest priority sector and ‘thin wedge’, to solve the current market problem of scarce and expensive turbine-ready synthetic Sustainable Aviation Fuel (eSAF).
The fuels in use today throughout the global transport system are almost exclusively liquid hydrocarbons refined from fossil feedstocks.
Liquid fuels are indispensable to modern society, consumed at a rate of over 4.4 trillion liters per year, and growing.
Syntholene couples advanced chemical synthesis processes with abundant sources of otherwise-stranded thermal energy, enabling breakthrough unit economics for high-performance fuel output.
We transmute heat and water into high-performance liquid fuels through advanced chemical synthesis.
Dan has spent the last 15 years as a founder and executive leader in sustainable infrastructure deployment and operations. For the last 11 of those years, he acted as the founder and CEO of Tantalus Labs, where he and his team designed, built, and operated it’s first-of-a-kind production facility SUNLAB, reducing energy demand 90% per square meter relative to historic incumbents. The company was sold in 2023.
He scaled his team from 0-150, grew revenues from 0 to $20m/y, and lead recruitment efforts to win over executives from Walmart, Accenture, KPMG, Imperial Brands, and HSBC. Dan has a strong track record in leadership, Government Relations, Public Relations, and project management. He prides himself on building cultures that foster intellect, drive, and relentless resourcefulness.
Canon Bryan is a founder and company builder with over 25 years of experience in various aspects of advanced energy companies. He is a Founder of Uranium Energy Corp (NYSE: UEC), largest incumbent on the NYSE, and Founder of NioCorp (NASDAQ: NB) the largest strategic Niobium reserve in the United States.
He has contracted with many public and private companies, performing a variety of finance-related functions. His skillset includes public company financial reporting, management reporting, full-cycle accounting, financial planning and analysis, economic modelling, corporate development strategies, technical writing, and project management.
Mr. Bryan is also a founder of Terrestrial Energy, the world’s leading developer of Generation IV IMSR Nuclear Power Plants, where he successfully contributed to fundraising over $1.5b USD including a singular US Government loan guarantee, awarded only once since the inception of the program in 2011.
John Kutsch leads the integration of the many discrete systems into a complete unified, optimized and refined system for economic and rapid construction and operation in his role as Chief Engineer of Syntholene.
John brings over 30 years of experience in systems design and implementation for large industrial companies. He has led innovation and design engineering across diverse advanced energy implementations, including the Senreq Syngas waste-to-energy plant in Morris Illinois, Caldera Mine to Metal in Pea Ridge Missouri, and NREL’s Gratzel Effect Solar Cells. He was also the lead designer of the Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) fission reactor for the one of the world’s leading developers of Gen-IV nuclear systems, Terretrial Energy.
Mr. Kutsch has managed energy research projects for Xcel Energy, in conjunction with NREL. He has led Plant and Equipment Optimization and integration programs for a consortium of ADM, Marathon Oil, North Development’s advanced-design Ethanol facility. The facility successfully integrated discrete systems, new standard operating procedures, and new approaches to create the first closed loop, circular, ethanol energy system, greatly increasing operating efficiencies while eliminating nearly all waste streams.
Jack has 7 years of experience in high-temperature and pressure reactors, pilot-scale rig design, and execution. As a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), his main research activity was Improving understanding and the design of heterogeneous catalytic and electrocatalytic reactors for synthetic fuel production and CO2 capture and utilization, primarily using magnetic resonance methods.
Jack designed and produced the world’s first industrially-relevant MRI-compatible electrolysis cell. He invented new magnetic resonance methodology that enabled the first ever real-time spatial imaging of the product composition inside catalyst pores in an operating heterogeneous catalytic reactor with results published in the prestigious journal Nature Catalysis. Jack designed, commissioned and performed successful experiments on the world’s first MRI-compatible Fischer-Tropsch reactor that obtained real-time measurements at industrial temperatures and pressures, providing insight for design optimisation, in collaboration with Shell. Research contributed towards Shell collaborators achieving production of 500 litres of synthetic kerosene used in the first successful passenger flight powered by sustainable fuel with KLM airlines.