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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-030393"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LODE"
cik: "0001120970"
company_name: "Comstock Inc."
filed_at: "2024-10-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T22:05:35.094674+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Comstock obtains exclusive worldwide license from DOE's NREL and MIT for biomass-to-SAF technology

## Summary
- Exclusive worldwide license from DOE's NREL and MIT for conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into aromatic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
- Three-year CRADA to integrate NREL's solvocatalytic refining with Comstock's existing process; Comstock funds research and provides Wisconsin pilot facility.
- Key team: NREL's Gregg Beckham, MIT's Yuriy Román-Leshkov, Washington State's Joshua Heyne.
- NREL tech at TRL4; CRADA targets TRL6 pre-commercial pilot, then scale-up to Comstock's planned 50,000 mt/yr demo facility.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-030393
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LODE
- cik: 0001120970
- company_name: Comstock Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-10-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1120970/000143774924030393/0001437749-24-030393-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1120970/000143774924030393/lode20241001_8k.htm

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