We produce an high octane liquid fuel which is used as a gasoline additive or a straight fuel on its own. It is easily blended with either gasoline or diesel. With the pressure of crude oil shortage in storage, alcohol and bio-diesel have gained more attention in different countries. Corn or other 'grown' products are the feedstock that dominates the current ethanol market. Almost all of the ethanol produced and marketed in the United States and Canada is made from the fermentation of corn or other grown products essentially in the same manner that distiller’s spirits are produced. These plants are large fixed facilities and specifically designed for the processing of corn, although other grains can be employed. But they are limited to using only the feedstock’s mentioned.

Conversely, Vista's System process will convert virtually any source, which contains "free" carbonaceous material i.e. "almost everything": farm animal waste, municipal solid waste, biomass, natural gas, coal, coal fines, coal bed methane, flare gas from a refinery or a well, or sour gas wells that are high in sulfur, which our technology can process. None of these waste feedstocks are economically employed in the fermentation processes used to make fuels today. Corn ethanol plants may have similar capital costs per annual production gallon, but operating costs of Vista's Energy System are significantly lower since the feedstock comes from waste, which is not grown thus no additional feed stock costs are incurred. Furthermore, our feedstock costs are minimal; because the material is hydro-carbon based waste material. There is no other known catalytic process available in the world capable of converting carbonaceous sources into high octane liquid fuel at the conversion rate achieved by Vista. All other known technologies in the alternative energy arena require higher capital and operating costs, have “lower” production yields, and many require subsequent refining to produce alcohol.

The Fischer-Trope (F-T) process, designed originally by Germany during WWII to fuel military vehicles, will convert natural gas or methane into a crude product requiring additional refining to produce alcohol fuels. The F-T process produces primarily diesel fuels. The F-T process also requires a clean, sulfur-free synthesis or natural gas feedstock and cannot convert other carbonaceous materials into ethanol. In this process, the feedstock is restricted to natural gas, the cost is higher and the yield is far lower than achieved by Vista's Energy System. Cobalt catalysts have proven to be poisoned by even microscopic amounts of sulfur in the natural gas feedstock. Our patented catalyst can withstand dirty synthesis gas and hydrogen sulfide with far greater output or production yields.