Thiel: Synthetic fuels require $1/kg hydrogen and $100-$200/ton CO₂ to compete
Dr. Greg Thiel · Climate tech startups need strong techno-economic analysis (TEA) · Oct 5, 2023 · at 18:05
Dr. Greg Thiel discusses techno-economic analysis (TEA) benchmarks for synthetic e-fuels with host Shayle Kann and Dr. Melissa Ball.
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“For a fuel, if you want to get anywhere close to economically competitive, you know, subsidies decide, you have to have hydrogen that's going to be on the order of a dollar per kilogram, and you have to have CO₂ that's in that 100 to 200 dollar per ton range, and that CO₂ has to be CO₂ that's coming, as you say, from the atmosphere or from a biogenic source. Otherwise, the fuel won't be truly carbon neutral.”
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