State Representative Jim Struzzi is touting a Conemaugh Township development that has great potential in the energy sector using re-purposed waste coal and acid mine drainage.  A pilot site operated by Firepoint Energy, Incorporated will utilize “plasma gasification” technology to turn waste coal into clean synthetic jet fuel. wdadradio.com/2025/03/09/str…

Firepoint Energy was once again featured in The Indiana Gazette as its executives hosted public officials and outlined plans for the development of the Tunnelton pilot site. indianagazette.com/local_new…

For the sake of clarity and accuracy, Firepoint Energy Inc. issues the following amended retraction regarding statements previously made through its official accounts, or other communications channels concerning Reformed Energy Inc. and the plasma gasifiers produced by that company: Firepoint Energy CEO Bill Smith was previously a contractor of Reformed Energy. However, neither he nor Firepoint Energy holds or retains any ownership rights to intellectual property, proprietary technology, or any other assets owned or managed by Reformed Energy, including its plasma gasifiers. Any prior use by Firepoint Energy of images owned by Reformed Energy was unauthorized and done without the explicit permission of Reformed Energy. Reformed Energy has filed a patent for a 50-ton-per-day plasma gasifier, and to the best of Firepoint Energy’s knowledge, Reformed Energy does not possess any expired patents related to plasma gasifiers. Firepoint Energy is not involved in the manufacturing of Reformed Energy’s gasifiers — specifically the L50 gasifier — and acknowledges that any future use by Firepoint Energy of Reformed Energy’s plasma gasifiers would be contingent upon a formal purchase agreement with Reformed Energy. Firepoint Energy regrets any misunderstanding resulting from prior communications and appreciates the opportunity to clarify this matter.

Firepoint Energy's leadership team was recently interviewed for an article in @Mining_Review spotlighting our ongoing efforts to bring a waste-coal-to-energy solution to Western Pennsylvania! globalminingreview.com/minin…

We were very excited to have our efforts in Western Pennsylvania spotlighted by @mining_review!

CEO CFO: What are some of the challenges in getting this off the ground? Mr. Smith: One challenge has been getting on the same page with the Department of Environmental Protection here in Pennsylvania. We have already dealt with the House, the Senate, and the Governor’s office because we know going into an industry like this, we want the policymakers to know what we are doing. The second thing is it costs a lot of money to get started. This small site we are building in Central Pennsylvania is $267 million. There is another pile a few hundred feet away of 15 million tons of waste coal and to build that site will cost at least $400 million. The expenditure it takes to purchase the equipment is very high. In the petroleum industry, they already have the equipment, since petroleum production is an established and ongoing process. We have to build this equipment from scratch, and we do that down in Texas and Louisiana. We truck it to Pennsylvania, assemble it, and start producing fuels and energy. The process of getting started is one of the hindrances to this industry. Firepoint.Energy

Another excerpt from CEO CFO Magazine Interview with Bill Smith CEO CFO: Are there any types of environmental challenges or things to be aware of when you are doing the processing? Mr. Smith: Not really, because the rock processing is no different than mining stone for gravel. The biggest question people ask us is “What do you do with the carbon dioxide?” I tell them to Google CO2 H2, and they will find out that we can convert carbon dioxide into methane and make fuel out of it. As weird as this may sound, our emissions are fuel. If we vented it into the environment, we would be releasing carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and hydrogen into the atmosphere. If we run those through a GE turbine, we are producing electricity, and we will have cleaner emissions than if we run on natural gas by running that same gas through a gas-to liquids plant. This is proven 1920s-1940s technology, and we convert that gas into cleaner-burning jet fuel and petroleum jet fuel. “To summarize, our process cleans up waste coal piles, produces energy from them in the form of jet fuel, and extracts rare earth elements and other valuable minerals in a way that is highly profitable and cost-effective.” Billy Ray Smith Our emissions are clean fuel, and that can be tough for a lot of people to wrap their heads around, but it’s 100% percent true.

Excerpt from CEO CFO Magazine Interview with Bill Smith CEO CFO: What if anything might people miss when they look at Firepoint Energy? Mr. Smith: People might miss how big the transition from petroleum fuels to synthetic fuels is going to be. Everyone knows about solar and wind, but I cannot run my car on solar or wind. Therefore, the next evolution of global energy is going to be in synthetic fuels, and we are right on that wave that is starting to rise up. Years ago, BP had a commercial on TV talking about their new cleaner-burning synthetic fuels. It is not new, because the people in the industry know about it, but the consumer is not yet aware that there is this growing energy movement that is going to affect their cars, their busses, and the entirety of transportation as we understand it today. Hydrogen will come along in time, but we have to convert hydrogen into another form and then reconvert it back into hydrogen to make it cost effective. This means the next industry we are working on is the new synthetic fuel industry, and we do that from waste streams. What they are missing is that we are cleaning up the messes that were left behind by prior versions of the energy industry and converting that waste into a fuel that they can drive with right away. I do not think people are aware of that, but they will all be finding out about it in the next decade or so. ceocfointerviews.com/pdfs/Fi…

Coal mines in the U.S. cover vast regions of our country. While some of the coal resources are more easily reached than others, all of it still faces the same environmental issues.  However, there is a more efficient way. The means have been developed to transform coal into synthetic gas, which can then be converted into synthetic fuels such as jet fuel, diesel fuel, gasoline, and an assortment of other chemicals.  Today, we depend on oil for the fuels we use, all the while releasing more CO2 and other toxins into the atmosphere. The gas-to-liquids process has been proven to produce a carbon-neutral fuel from a dirty source.    Meanwhile, rare earth elements hide within coal, and also within the layers of earth above and below coal seams.  We are interested in producing carbon neutral fuels by using off-the-shelf technologies to liberate the fly ash and process it for rare earth elements.

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Coal mines in the U.S. cover vast regions of our country. While some of the coal resources are more easily reached than others, all of it still faces the same environmental issues.  However, there is a more efficient way. The means have been developed to transform coal into synthetic gas, which can then be converted into synthetic fuels such as jet fuel, diesel fuel, gasoline, and an assortment of other chemicals.  Today, we depend on oil for the fuels we use, all the while releasing more CO2 and other toxins into the atmosphere. The gas-to-liquids process has been proven to produce a carbon-neutral fuel from a dirty source.   Meanwhile, rare earth elements hide within coal, and also within the layers of earth above and below coal seams.  We are interested in producing carbon neutral fuels by using off-the-shelf technologies to liberate the fly ash and process it for rare earth elements. #FirepointE #NewSource #CleanEnergy

Today, most Rare Earth Elements are mined in rock quarries that can extend thousands of feet below the earth’s surface.  But there is an overlooked resource often rich in these elements that is easily accessible. That is where Firepoint comes in.  We’ve found an abundant resource of Rare Earth Elements literally lying on the ground. #RareEarthMinerals #AmericanEnergy #CleanEnergy #DataCenters #InvestmentOpportunity

Clink the link below to take a ride with Firepoint Energy CEO Bill Smith and see how we got here and where we are going .... #CleanEnergy #Syngas #tech #invest youtu.be/kSQmRZXH8YQ?si=hCs5…

Hydrogen for Industrial Use or Hydrogen Hubs Our waste-coal-to-energy sites will often produce excess electrical power that we can then use to power electrolyzers, send to the grid, or use for data mining.   The Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) we seem to find along with every waste coal pile we’ve seen so far can be converted into renewable hydrogen.    In addition to using electolyzers, we can extract excess hydrogen from the syngas we produce for synthetic fuel production and power production.  We simply add a couple of additional pieces of equipment between the gasifiers and the GTL plant and extract clean hydrogen from the syngas.  You can read more at the link here - firepoint.energy/wp-content/… #Hydrogen #CleanEnergy #Syngas #EnergyThatCleans #Invest

The world’s need for Rare Earth Elements is increasing at an exponential rate.  The global desire for electric cars, digital watches, high-definition TVs, and hundreds of other state-of-the-art products has driven the demand for neodymium, scandium, cerium, terbium, praseodymium, and other rare earth elements right through the roof. Today, most Rare Earth Elements are mined in rock quarries that can extend thousands of feet below the earth’s surface.  But there is an overlooked resource often rich in these elements that is easily accessible. That is where Firepoint comes in.  We’ve found an abundant resource of Rare Earth Elements literally lying on the ground. #RareEarthMinerals #CleanEnergy #FirepointEnergy #investmentopportunity