volk-morya:eatsleepblee:theveiledwarrior:hamburgerjack:mothernaturenetwork:Scientists successfully g

volk-morya:eatsleepblee:theveiledwarrior:hamburgerjack:mothernaturenetwork:Scientists successfully generate gasoline out of thin airBreakthrough technology takes carbon, hydrogen and oxygen from CO2 and water in the air to create methanol and then converts it into gasoline.We’ll never hear about this again. And we may never hear from those scientists again.Amazing though.Big Oil’s gonna be piiiiiiiiissedSomebody go put these folks in the witness protection program before they get hits put on them by ExxonMobilI’ve actually heard of a man mysteriously disappearing after he refused to the government to not go through with his making of a substitute of gasoline with water. So everybody needs to reblog. Seriously.This story is two and a half years old.From the article: “It seems so simple that you may wonder why we haven’t been getting our gasoline this way all along. Well, that’s because there’s just one small complication: So far scientists haven’t been able to prove that the process generates more energy than it requires. The technique requires electricity for its chemical conversions, and the process cannot be viable until it is demonstrated that the energy needed as input costs less than what is gained as output. That’s where British company Air Fuel Synthesis comes in. The company has taken on the task of demonstrating that the technique works, that it produces a viable fuel, and that it can be made energy-efficient. The first half of the equation has now been settled, as the company has successfully demonstrated the conversion process. ‘I take my hat off to Air Fuel Synthesis. They have taken a concept that has been around for 35 years and gotten the process going,’ said Peter Edwards, an inorganic chemist at the University of Oxford. The fuel is not only viable; the company believes it will be suitable for high-performance vehicles. But the biggest benefit of the fuel is its sustainability. Since burning the fuel only releases the same carbon dioxide that was already in the air to begin with, it is carbon neutral. (That is, so long as the electricity required to make the necessary chemical conversions is sourced from renewable energy like wind or solar.) Another potential benefit of the fuel is that it will be price-predictable. Gas prices won’t fluctuate because the fuel source will be stable. Before any of this is possible, however, Air Fuel Synthesis needs to demonstrate the vital second half of the equation: the energy-efficiency of the process. For that, the company will need a bigger plant. They expect to have one up and running by 2015.“Synthesizing gasoline requires a lot of energy, and that energy is not necessarily carbon-neutral and not free. Keep your fingers crossed that Air Fuel Synthesis will figure something out.As for Big Oil being pissed and these scientists ending up dead in a ditch…yeah, no need to worry there. A big corporation will buy the patent and start charging people just as much as they do for the fossil fuels that they dig out of the ground. The scientists will be fine. The status quo won’t change for us or for them. But the planet might be healthier. Which is pretty important.See this is why I hesitate to reblog the “SCIENTIST DISCOERS THING WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS REBLOG BEFORE THEY GET DISAPPEARED” -- source link

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