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LobsterSauce


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Gasoline made from CO2 soon!
#12871207 - 07/09/10 05:16 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Scientists are moving closer in a new experiment that aims to produce fuel from carbon dioxide and sunlight. Theypetrol-pump claim that this new fuel will help meet world’s energy needs and minimize carbon emissions.
A team of scientists from the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico is working on this ground breaking work. The new technique is to produce “synthetic liquid fuels” in solar-powered reactors.
Various experiments have already shown that the reactors can absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) and convert it into carbon monoxide and the same can also be used to turn water into hydrogen and oxygen. With the help of a catalyst the two can be reacted together to form hydrocarbon fuels.
In future scientists hope that CO2 is extracted directly from the air thus contributing to the reduction of carbon in the atmostphere.
Atleast this will put a stop to the problem of digging wells and leaving them uncapped!
http://itgrunts.com/2010/07/07/gasoline-made-from-co2-soon/
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Spiderbaby
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Re: Gasoline made from CO2 soon! [Re: LobsterSauce]
#12871239 - 07/09/10 05:51 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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the planet will be covered in bleedin' solar panels though =(
still interesting
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Re: Gasoline made from CO2 soon! [Re: LobsterSauce]
#12871250 - 07/09/10 06:02 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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what's funny is I was talking about 'water powered cars' almost a decade ago, and everybody thought I was fucken nuts
and I said at the time they could at least make a car that ran off of both hydrogen and oxygen fuel cells, which would then create a sort of water myst as their only emulsion...so it seemed only logical that they ought to be able to create one that used pure water asa fuel, which would then excrete some sort of gas as their only discharge
and dare I say - this is damn close
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Re: Gasoline made from CO2 soon! [Re: Muppet]
#12871431 - 07/09/10 07:56 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Muppet said: what's funny is I was talking about 'water powered cars' almost a decade ago, and everybody thought I was fucken nuts
and I said at the time they could at least make a car that ran off of both hydrogen and oxygen fuel cells, which would then create a sort of water myst as their only emulsion...so it seemed only logical that they ought to be able to create one that used pure water asa fuel, which would then excrete some sort of gas as their only discharge
and dare I say - this is damn close 
go find those people and ask them NOW WHO'S CRAZY?!?!??!?!
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