About Joule

Joule is pioneering the production of Liquid Fuel from the Sun™

More than a promising technology, Joule^® is advancing a platform for renewable fuel and chemical production that is expected to eclipse the scale, productivity and cost efficiency of any known alternative to fossil fuel today.

The company's Helioculture™ platform incorporates proprietary, engineered photosynthetic microorganisms to directly produce infrastructure-ready diesel, ethanol and multiple chemicals with no dependence on biomass feedstocks, agricultural land or fresh water. In parallel, Joule has developed a novel SolarConverter^® system to enable the direct, continuous process with productivities that will be up to 100X greater than biomass-dependent methods, which require numerous energy-intensive steps and downstream processing to achieve an end product. In contrast, using sunlight, non-potable water and waste CO₂ from industrial emitters or pipelines, Joule can directly produce up to 15,000 gallons of diesel and 25,000 gallons of ethanol per acre annually at stable costs as low as $20/bble and $0.60/gallon respectively (including subsidies).

This unprecedented combination of scale, cost efficiency and infrastructure readiness will allow Joule to leapfrog the incremental progress of biofuels and create an entirely new industry around sustainable, localized solar fuel production.

With its technology now proven and operating at pilot scale, Joule is advancing towards commercialization and the worldwide deployment of production facilities that will yield high-volume, cost-competitive fuels and chemicals in an ecologically-sound process. Commercial production is expected to begin in 2013.

Founded in 2007 by Flagship VentureLabs, Joule is privately held and headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.