Eyal Aronoff
Co-Founder
Fuel Freedom Foundation
Areas of Expertise:
Eyal Aronoff is a co-founder of Quest Software, one of the world’s most successful technology companies, that was recently sold to Dell for $2.4B, and co-founder of the Fuel Freedom Foundation, which is dedicated to ending America’s oil addiction by opening markets to cheaper, cleaner, healthier replacement fuels such as ethanol, methanol and natural gas.
Aronoff earned his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in chemistry and computer science from Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv. Working out of the kitchen of a one-bedroom apartment in Princeton New Jersey, Aronoff developed software programs and co-wrote a book on Oracle databases. When the opportunity came to join Vinny Smith in founding Quest Software, he moved Orange County, CA. He now lives in Newport Beach, CA, with his wife Yael and their two children.
After spending a decade analyzing the economic and geopolitical impact of America’s dependence on oil, and supporting numerous research and policy initiatives, Aronoff and fellow software entrepreneur Yossie Hollander in 2011agreed to invest their time and resources to create the nonprofit, nonpartisan Fuel Freedom Foundation.
Recent Posts by Eyal Aronoff
Recent Comments by Eyal Aronoff
- "1. Sorry, but corrosive is corrosive. Why isn’t ethanol processed within the refinery? Why isn’t ethanol pumped in petroleum pipelines? You are arguin"
Refueling the Future with Alcohol Fuels - "Thank you Captain Kiefer for your contribution and your service to the country. First I would like to say that my talk does not support increasing the"
Refueling the Future with Alcohol Fuels - "Walk me through that. So lets say that the cost of oil production goes up by say 20%. The oil companies will no longer be able to produce marginal oil"
Refueling the Future with Alcohol Fuels - "@Dan Milller
Hi Dan,
I would like to comment on your two comments:
Algae oil: You say that "but the problem is that transportation fuel is about "
Refueling the Future with Alcohol Fuels - "Sid,
Algae is a feedstock not a fuel. You can make gasoline/diesel with algae but it seems to be pretty hard hence expensive. However, making alcoh"
Refueling the Future with Alcohol Fuels - "Ellen,
My apologies, indeed my stat"
Metrics for Comparing Alternative Liquid Fuels - "Ellen,
There is an implicit assumption that vehicles are hard coded for the fuel. This is NOT the case. The fuel is a programmable feature of the E"
Metrics for Comparing Alternative Liquid Fuels - "Bruce my friend,
I have a request and couple of comments.
My request is this. Can you produce the graph in your opening post but stated in total"
Metrics for Comparing Alternative Liquid Fuels - "I think that one has to look at the final cost to the consumer. I would postulate (without proof) that there is "infinite" amount of oil at $1,000 a b"
Metrics for Comparing Alternative Liquid Fuels - "Ike,
In terms of dollar cost to the US consumers, oil products expense is north of $750 billion a year while coal is only $35 billion. So yes, chea"
Can Natural Gas and Renewables Be Synergistic, Not Competitive?