Step 1: HPG – Carbon Mobilisation
The process begins with the low-oxygen gasification of biomass or waste. Rather than burning the feedstock, it is thermally broken down into a hydrogen-rich syngas. This gas contains hydrogen, methane, carbon monoxide, and CO2. Critically, no part of this gas is treated as waste. The entire gas stream becomes feedstock energy and carbon, ready for microbial conversion.
Step 2: TMF – Carbon Conversion
Where most fermentation processes emit CO2, TMF-based systems do the opposite. The microbes employed by Syngas Project are selected or engineered to consume CO2, using it as a carbon source alongside hydrogen to produce high-value bioproducts. Ethanol, organic acids, biodegradable plastics, and even protein all emerge from the recombination of these simple molecules inside microbial cells.
This is biological computation, a form of carbon intelligence, where cells act as processors, logic gates, and recyclers. Instead of using massive data centres and electricity to think, these microbes convert molecular input into output with astonishing efficiency and near-zero energy loss.
Step 3: Cascading Value
Each product of the TMF step can become input for another. This allows Lifestacking to operate not as a single-output process but as a modular, value-generating engine. Ethanol becomes aviation fuel. Organic acids become materials. Protein becomes feed or food. Residual gases are redirected into secondary fermentation or anaerobic digestion. Nothing is wasted.
Step 4: Residue Valorisation
At the end of the process, solid residues remain: biochar and mineral ash. Even these are not liabilities. Biochar is used to restore soil, retain nutrients, and sequester carbon long-term. Mineral ash can be converted into construction material or used as a pH buffer. The platform leaves no waste stream behind.
The Role of BRAD and the Open Carbon Stack
Lifestacking isn’t just about hardware, it’s about intelligence. BRAD, the Bespoke Language Model developed by Syngas Project, curates over a century of scientific knowledge on gasification and fermentation. It learns from every pilot and production run, helps guide strain selection, process settings, and yield optimisation. It ensures that innovation is open-source and deployment is fast.
By combining BRAD’s intelligence with microbial efficiency, Syngas Project enables distributed carbon sovereignty, small plants in rural or urban settings, processing local waste into local value, with global intelligence behind them.
Why Lifestacking Matters
In short, Lifestacking is a value proposition. It’s a business case for circular carbon. It reduces dependency on imports, replaces fossil feedstocks, and regenerates ecosystems. Most importantly, it recognises carbon for what it truly is, not a liability, but an asset.
The Future: Not Just Smart Microbes, But Smart Platforms
Syngas Project does not design new life. It builds the platforms on which life can do the work. Lifestacking is not an invention of microbes is an architecture of opportunity. The real value is in enabling scale: to allow one strain, once proven, to be deployed in hundreds of locations. From one feedstock, we unlock multiple futures.
Conclusion
In an age where AI consumes more energy than entire nations, biological intelligence points to another way. Our microbes dont need serversthey need CO2. And the more we feed them, the more they give back. That is the Lifestacking promise: recycle carbon, redesign industry, regenerate value.