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Air Company employs their technology, which was inspired by photosynthesis. You think about, you know, photosynthesis ��� so, so trees, right. They absorb carbon dioxide and they use the sun's energy to do so, and they put out oxygen. Well, our technology is really based off, the same or very similar premise to that. Air Company takes liquified CO2 and hydrogen, made from an electrolyzer that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. The captured CO2 and hydrogen are then fed into a proprietary carbon conversion reactor, where a catalyst produces a chemical reaction that converts these inputs into a reactor liquid of alcohols, alkanes, and water. After distillation, the resulting carbon negative chemicals can then be turned into products like sustainable aviation fuel. While synthetic fuel creation has been around for decades, Air Company's innovative carbon conversion reactor has made the process far more efficient. Not only do we take carbon dioxide and combine it with hydrogen to make these, you know, this suite of, you know, alcohols, chemicals and fuels, but we do it in a, in a, in a singular step process. And so that ultimately leads to a lot of efficiency, which ultimately leads to a lot of cost reduction.