About OneSix Energy

Dan Darga, our co-founder & CTO, is a rocket scientist. It’s true. Over the past decade he’s led teams of NASA engineers to produce satellites designed to provide invaluable scientific insight ranging from life on earth, to the origins of the universe itself. Before coming to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to unravel the mysteries of the universe, Dan passionately pursued technologies to fight climate change as a Senior Principal Engineer for a clean-energy startup and Lead Engineer developing fuel cells for General Motors.

As you might expect from a typical rocket scientist working on clean energy, he became obsessed thinking there had to be a better way to produce hydrogen. These nagging thoughts gnawed at his brain, eventually producing the general concept of methane pyrolysis, unaware that it was already a thing. The more he thought, the clearer the solution became. He sketched out his idea, creating massive spreadsheets, performing complex calculations, and consulting industry experts in search of the fatal flaw that would uncover why nobody has taken this approach before – a search that continues to come up empty. Dammit, Jim, this idea just might work…

Talking through his idea with serial entrepreneur and tech-company advisor, Stefan Sysko, they decided it would be worth investing some time performing a ton of research on the clean-tech industry, and quickly realized there was opportunity lurking in Dan’s discovery.

Based in Detroit, Michigan the founders are proud to be in the thick of the Midwest Hydrogen Hub network. Good things are happening in the fight against climate change. OneSix Energy is poised to be an important contributor to the next generation of climate-tech.