Virtually every molecule of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel we use here in our human civilization came from decomposed plants and animals that were on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago. Within the last decade or so, scientists have …
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Synthetic Fuels
Shown at left is a subject known as synthetic fuels, that’s been around since the days of the Third Reich in the 1940s. There is nothing “groundbreaking” about it whatsoever. In order to be made efficient enough to be meaningful, …
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Synthetic Fuels
The claim made at left is total BS. It’s not that synthetic fuels aren’t possible, rather that: 1) The concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere is about 400 PPM, or about 0.04%, meaning that the other 99.96% is something else …
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Synthetic Fuels
I advise coming up to speed on high school math and science before making this investment. Of course, these people prey upon ignorance, and there’s plenty of that to go around these days.
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CO2 —> Transportation Fuels
This is a scam. How can I be so sure? Because the Earth’s atmosphere is ~400 ppm CO2, meaning that 99.96% of it is something else. There are opportunities to make synthetic fuels out of CO2, but they need to …
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Food from Thin Air
From this: It’s not like you can make food out of thin air. Well…it turns out you can. A company from Finland, Solar Foods, is planning to bring to market a new protein powder, Solein, made out of CO₂, water …
Global Cargo Shipping
An old friend asks, “Given the extreme carbon footprint associated with transoceanic cargo shipping, wouldn’t it be better if we built our products here, rather than import them?” The answer is yes, and such a change would also enable us …
Synthetic Fuels
Synthetic fuels refer to those that don’t come from biological processes; they’re made from bringing together hydrogen and carbon molecules to form hydrocarbons via highly endothermic chemical reactions. Preferably that energy is derived from sources whose off-peak output would otherwise …
Feasibility of Hydrogen
Reader Markus Dirnbacher asks, Sustainable hydrogen – amongst all currently available technologies- will be the only possibility for long term storage of power! Do you agree? No, this is extremely unlikely to happen. Batteries are making great progress, and synthetic …
How Not To Learn About Synthetic Fuels
Here’s a video on synthetic fuels. This is an important topic for people to understand, but this particular presentation contains so many misleading claims, that it does more to confuse and misinform the viewer than to elucidate the subject.
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