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New startup General Galactic envisions producing a cheaper version of renewable synthetic fuel, particularly methane. It aims to create a more accessible e-fuel for everyone.

The stealthy new startup hopes a fully integrated approach, from direct air capture to electrolysis and methane generation, will let it drive prices down for so-called e-fuels.

It’s not an easy strategy to get right, but General Galactic, a stealthy new startup, hopes the approach will let it drive prices down for so-called e-fuels, which produce hydrocarbons from captured carbon dioxide, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The company was born out of co-founder and CEO Halen Mattison’s time at SpaceX. Mattison urged SpaceX to tackle the problem, but it was too tangential to the company’s goals at the time, he said.

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