--- title: Arbor Power Station: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 description: Find out why Arbor Power Station is one of the best inventions of 2024 canonical: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094627/arbor-power-station/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-10-30T11:49:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T11:54:27.640Z article:section: Business og:title: Arbor Power Station: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 og:description: Find out why Arbor Power Station made this year's list og:url: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094627/arbor-power-station/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdda18203da842e33/698a8a0e929fad40b8c019e7/arbor-best-inventions.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Arbor Power Station: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Arbor Power Station: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 twitter:description: Find out why Arbor Power Station made this year's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdda18203da842e33/698a8a0e929fad40b8c019e7/arbor-best-inventions.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 30, 2024 # Space-Age Energy Creation by [Jared Lindzon](https://time.com/author/jared-lindzon/) ## Jared Lindzon Jared Lindzon is the co-author of "Do More in Four: Why It’s Time for a Shorter Workweek"  Former SpaceX rocket scientist and pilot Brad Hartwig once dreamed of going to space. Now he's focused on a different moonshot. [Arbor](https://arbor.co/technology), the startup he founded in 2022, has developed a system premised on [oxy-combustion](https://netl.doe.gov/node/7477)—the same process that powers rocket engines—to convert organic waste from agriculture, forestry, and food into low-cost energy, while capturing the carbon that’s generated and burying it underground. The process also emits clean water, which can be reused. The shipping-container sized power systems are capable of producing five megawatts each per year, enough to power 4,000 homes. “We’re leveraging all this technology that our team pioneered at SpaceX and repurposing it,” Hartwig says. Arbor recently announced a partnership to sell carbon credits to [Microsoft](https://arbor.co/perspectives/microsoft-deal) starting in 2027. These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094627/arbor-power-station/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094627/arbor-power-station/"},"headline":"Arbor Power Station: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024","datePublished":"2024-10-30T11:49:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:27.640Z","description":"Find out why Arbor Power Station is one of the best inventions of 2024","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094627/arbor-power-station/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdda18203da842e33/698a8a0e929fad40b8c019e7/arbor-best-inventions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jared Lindzon","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/jared-lindzon/"}],"creator":"Jared Lindzon","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdda18203da842e33/698a8a0e929fad40b8c019e7/arbor-best-inventions.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094627/arbor-power-station/","name":"Arbor Power Station: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024"}}]}] ```