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Old 10-23-2012, 03:18 AM   #1
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Default British engineers create gasoline from thin air, do you believe it or not?

Apparently it is true that some British engineers have figured out a way to create gasoline or petro and they are calling it "Air Capture" technology be perfected by a company named Air Fuel Synthesis. Basically what they do is create a synthetic fuel using electricity and air. It mixes sodium hydroxide with carbon dioxide before zapping the resulting sodium carbonate with electricity, to form pure carbon dioxide. At the same time, hydrogen is produced by electrolyzing water vapor captured with a dehumidifier. The carbon dioxide and hydrogen are then used to produce methanol which in turn is passed through a gasoline fuel reactor, creating petrol.


Breakthrough ... scientists hope it could help solve the energy crisis


Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz2A5arQpH1


What is everyone's take around here on the subject? Wish it were diesel, huh?



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Wow that is amazing. Really ken I can't imagine this would even be possible. The whole idea seems like wishful thinking and I know diesel would only be a pipe dream.
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If the British have something here then it would be amazing! Ken you are right wishing it was diesel.
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Apparently it is true that some British engineers have figured out a way to create gasoline or petro and they are calling it "Air Capture" technology be perfected by a company named Air Fuel Synthesis. Basically what they do is create a synthetic fuel using electricity and air. It mixes sodium hydroxide with carbon dioxide before zapping the resulting sodium carbonate with electricity, to form pure carbon dioxide. At the same time, hydrogen is produced by electrolyzing water vapor captured with a dehumidifier. The carbon dioxide and hydrogen are then used to produce methanol which in turn is passed through a gasoline fuel reactor, creating petrol.





Breakthrough ... scientists hope it could help solve the energy crisis


Read more: Brit engineers make air-mazing discovery | The Sun |News


What is everyone's take around here on the subject? Wish it were diesel, huh?



I knew I should have wrote that down, the other morning when I was awaking by that train passing. Another idea slips thru my fingers.
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Matt, you can always dream up a way to produce diesel out of smog pollution?
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The problem isn't can you do it, there are lots of ways to produce a fuel we can burn in cars and diesels. The problem is the cost and energy efficiency of doing so. In this case, where do you get the electricity and if from natural gas wouldn't it be more efficient to just directly burn natural gas. Any energy conversion requires two things; an energy source from nature and a conversion process that minimizes losses in the conversion process. Just because we can do something doesn't make it a broadly useable idea.

The Navy developed alternate fuel supplies for their ships and planes, but at $27 per gallon I could only go nowhere without breaking my budget.

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I agree with you Jon. It is like the whole corn methanol thing, it absolutely is not cost effective and never will be. They grow tons of GMO hybrid corn that takes way more energy to produce fuel out of. I have family involved in it and they say it produces a paycheck and that is why they do it but that it no way cost effective. It is padding the wallets of those that don't need any padding.
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