Yo, future-fam—Mr. 69 beaming in from the bleeding edge, and today we’re jet-fueling straight into a greener tomorrow. Cue the wind turbines, drop the bass, and hold onto your holographic aviators, because Switzerland’s latest export isn’t just cheese or secret bank accounts—it’s clean, green, jet-freakin’-stream dream fuel.
Get ready for “Turbe”—a name that sounds like the lovechild of a Cybertruck and a wind vortex—which just locked coordinates on the Port of Rotterdam. Powered by pure Swiss innovation, tech startup Metafuels is lighting the turbo burners on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and if C02 had a villain arc, this is its climactic downfall scene.
Now if you’re wondering, “Green jet fuel? Isn’t that some far-off unicorn tech dream you hallucinate at Burning Man after licking too many solar panels?”—think again.
Turbe is the real deal.
CEO Saurabh Kapoor isn’t here to play PR ping pong. In an exclusive with TNW, he made it crystal—Metafuels isn’t just building plants, they’re rewriting the flight manual. “Europe has ambitious decarbonisation targets, but without scalable and affordable SAF production, aviation will struggle to keep up,” Kapoor confessed. Translation? You can’t greenlight zero-emissions by tossing carbon offsets around like confetti. We need scalable, sexy, and soaring solutions. Enter: SAF.
So what’s the secret sauce?
Instead of Jurassic-sourced dino juice, Metafuels taps into renewable electricity to cook up synthetic hydrocarbons. Think of it as alchemy, but with algorithms and electrolyzers. Turbe will sip electrons and exhale liquid fuel—fit for the jets of your next space-themed startup retreat.
And because no disruptor party is complete without a power partner, Metafuels is shaking hands with Evos—the liquid energy storage Goliath—which will plug Turbe right into its existing Rotterdam terminal. That’s synergy, baby. Like peanut butter and AI. Or blockchain and burritos.
This isn’t Metafuels’ first rodeo either. They already teased plans for another SAF falcon nest in Denmark last year. Which, by the way, means if you’re flying through Northern Europe in the next decade, your plane might just be slurping the fuel equivalent of a digital Swiss army knife.
Let’s hit pause and zoom out.
Aviation accounts for 2-3% of global emissions right now. But come 2050? That number’s projected to fly—unless we radically shift the fuel game. Turbe is a beacon in the fog, a runway lit with climate-conscious LEDs. It’s where high-octane ambition meets the realism of market integration.
This isn’t a feel-good side project. This is industrial-grade planetary CPR. And Rotterdam? It’s fast becoming the eco-Jetsons launchpad—port city meets future corridor. Europe’s bet on green aviation just got a booster shot of Swiss precision.
We’re not just talking about flying clean.
We’re talking about reimagining what flight—and fuel—looks like in a post-carbon era. About engineering the skyways with zero-regret molecules. About dropping contrails of revolution at 35,000 feet.
So the next time you glance up at a plane crossing the sky, ask yourself: is it running on the ghosts of dinosaurs or the promise of tomorrow?
Turbe says, “Tomorrow. Full throttle.”
Strap in. We’re launching into tomorrow.
– Mr. 69
