SOLIDEArchive is our research platform dedicated to recovering, digitising, and activating Europe’s buried industrial knowledge—from synthetic fuels and fermentation chemistry to carbon recycling technologies displaced during the 20th century.
At the heart of SOLIDEArchive is BRAD (Bibliographic Retrieval and Analysis Device), an AI-powered tool that helps trace, organise, and reinterpret suppressed innovations from pre-war, wartime, and post-war archives.
This work supports the development of circular carbon platforms such as TITAN and ASMARA by restoring lost technical pathways and connecting them to modern sustainability goals.
We invite researchers, institutions, and historians to join us in building a shared foundation for Europe’s post-fossil future—where circularity is not invented, but remembered and reactivated.
Fuels without petrolleum refineries
Chemicals without fossil chains
Materials without plastic pollution
Nutrients without industrial agriculture
Why Sovereignty Matters
At the end of WWII, the Allies feared that the vast reservoir of German scientific knowledge—hydrogenation, microbial fermentation, synthetic fuels—would fall into Soviet hands. The response was decisive: operations like CIOS, FIAT, and TOM launched a systematic campaign to capture, catalogue, and repatriate German industrial intelligence. What followed was one of the largest technical document extractions in modern history.
The United States saw the future and chose petroleum. Under Operation Paperclip, entire scientific communities were relocated to the U.S.—and from their knowledge, NASA, the Cold War fuel infrastructure, and the modern petrostate were born.
Today, here in Europe, we face the opposite challenge: to reclaim sovereignty over fuels, chemicals, materials, and nutrients—without oil, gas, or coal. By curating the past and organising the present, we are now ready to build a new future.
At SOLIDEArchive, we are creating the tools to process and activate the archive material we’ve collected over more than a decade. We’ve done the fieldwork. Now we are preparing to deliver these insights—and their modern counterparts—directly into the hands of a new generation of scientists, historians, and innovators.
As Europe moves into a post-pollution era, sovereignty over circular carbon flows is no longer optional. It is the foundation for prosperity, resilience, and global leadership.
Ten Eras of Carbon Circularity – HPG & TMF Alignment
| ERA Code | Dates | Era Title | HPG Focus | TMF Focus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ERA_01 | Pre–1800 | Pre-Industrial Carbon | Charcoal-based fuel, primitive coke kilns, wood gas. | Natural fermentation (beer, bread, vinegar). |
| ERA_02 | 1800–1870 | Industrial Gaslight | Coal gasification for light; retort technology. | No structured industrial TMF. |
| ERA_03 | 1870–1914 | Engine & Furnace Era | Producer gas engines emerge; Deutz, Otto, Siemens developments. | Ethanol and butanol by-products; early acetone pathways (Weizmann). |
| ERA_04 | 1914–1945 | Wartime & Synthetic Fuels | Bergius hydrogenation, FT synthesis, Tornesch, Leuna; peak German innovation. | Industrialised ABE fermentation; early synthetic rubber and oil substitutes. |
| ERA_05 | 1945–1973 | Postwar Intelligence & Decline | Suppression of HPG tech; Paperclip dispersal; Sasol starts in SA. | Antibiotics scale-up; agricultural protein and feed applications. |
| ERA_06 | 1973–1990 | Oil Crises Reawakening | Renewed academic interest; NASA, DOE studies; pilot-scale demos. | GMO breakthroughs; insulin, enzymes; fermentation moves into biotech labs. |
| ERA_07 | 1990–2005 | Early Biomass Integration | ANKUR and small-scale bio-waste gasifiers; RUMIA pilot. | First targeted ethanol production; waste stream valorisation begins. |
| ERA_08 | 2005–2015 | Circular Carbon | TITAN concept phase; EPC pre-integration; pyrolysis + co-gen tech. | TMF defined; CO₂-fed microbes; platform-based product design (EtOH, ABE, etc). |
| ERA_09 | 2015–2030 | Climate Emergency Engineering | TITAN EPC-level roll-out; grid- and DH-ready modules. | Ethanol to protein shift; biopolymers; TMF hubs for materials & nutrients. |
| ERA_10 | 2030–Onwards | Post-Peak Carbon | HPG standardised globally; replaces fossil carbon in fuels, heat, and base chemicals. | TMF sovereign infrastructure: fuels, plastics, proteins from waste carbon. |
Recycled Carbon. Remade Europe.
Biomanufacturing from recycled carbon isn’t just a breakthrough—it’s the spark of a new industrial revolution. By uniting these technologies onto a single, modular platforms, we create real material impact across villages, cities, regions, and supply chains—from forest floor to fibre optic.
This is not a passive transition.
It’s an invitation to lead.
We call on the next generation of entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, and service providers to take centre stage in building Europe’s sovereignty in fuels, chemicals, materials, and nutrients.
Yes, AI will shape our future—but TITAN, ASMARA, and SOLIDEArchive are the tools that make that future sustainable, circular, and sovereign.
Our platforms power the data centres that will drive the AI era—locally, cleanly, renewably. At the same time, they produce biochar and bioash, feeding a regenerative agriculture movement that gives young people a reason to return to the land, heal the soil, and fix the broken food chain.
This is the moment.
Post-pollution. Post-petroleum. Post-carbon.
Let’s build it—together.