Scientists successfully generate gasoline out of thin air
Breakthrough 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 piiiiiiiiissed
Somebody go put these folks in the witness protection program before they get hits put on them by ExxonMobil
^^^Seriously though. Big oil has put their foot down and used politicians to a stop their business from being interfered with before, cars have literally disappeared from history books because they got 300 mpg and they are still actively battling electric cars today.
Spread this, and don’t let it get swept under the carpet and forgotten like the EV1 and the 376 mpg car!
This is nice and all, but it takes more energy to make a gram of octane than you get back from burning it. If the process is efficient enough, maybe it’d be reasonable as a form of energy storage, but you can’t get more energy out of a chemical bond than you put into it. We’re probably better off researching better battery technologies and fuel cells.
(via sanshofox)
