The AirRefinery

Electricity in.
Fuel out.

An oil well that runs on air and electricity, with no oil. Pump fuel forever, directly from the sky.

The Fugu AirRefinery, a skid-mounted machine that makes methanol from air
Specifications

The unit.

Production 7.5 tmethanol / year · about 9,500 L
Form factor 2.3 × 2.0 × 2.5 mskid · six ship in one 40 ft container
Status TRL 5prototype testing in Sydney
Installation 2hours, on site
Inputs Air + electricityonly
Output Drop-in fuelsnap-lock piping
How it works

Three steps
to make fuel.

The AirRefinery pulls carbon from the air, splits water for hydrogen, and combines them into liquid fuel — all inside the same unit. Three processes, one balance of system, one outlet.

IN + Air + Electricity
01

Pull
carbon

炭素を引き出す
  • from atmospheric air
02

Split
water

水を分解する
  • for hydrogen
  • pulled from the air
03

Make
fuel

燃料を作る
  • 7.5 t methanol / yr
  • drop-in, no engine change
OUT + Liquid fuel
SELF-CONTAINED Every system the AirRefinery needs — power, cooling, water, heat — is generated and shared inside the box. No external piping. No civil works. Three patents protect how the modules share a single balance of system.
Status

Testing at full scale in Sydney.

Prototype equipment for each stage of the AirRefinery is being commissioned and tested at our University of Sydney site. The components are designed for mass manufacture.

AirRefinery prototype equipment under its shelter at the University of Sydney site.
Yes, it’s real. · University of Sydney
AirRefinery units on an assembly line

Deployment model

Build them like an automobile.
Then run them like an oilfield.

One auto-scale factory could out-produce the Strait of Hormuz in a decade. Modular fuel farms are the future of energy security.

See Fuel Farms