Brits make petrol from air



onkelmicha said:
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I know that electricity can be produced economically, but is that going to be the case here. Probably not.
Fossil fuels will be burnt to produce the very electricity that will generate this fuel.
Do not get me wrong, I am all for alternative energy, but this just isn't the miracle that everyone is looking for.
I will be very happy to be proven wrong.
 
We have some people at school who are working with hydrogen fuel cells for cars. The cells need oxygen to pass over them, so it works out well when the car is moving. The current method uses natural gas:

Fuel-cell cars
 
We have a jobs crisis and an energy crisis in this country, so lets kill two birds with one stone.

We just need to develop human sized hamster wheels to generate energy with. This will create not just jobs for humans to create the energy, but factories to build the wheels. Brilliant!

And to all you who will inevitably ask "but Napolean, those people still need to eat, so it still negative energy".. I ask you, why do you hate chefs and farmers so much?
 
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swiftmoney said:
I know that electricity can be produced economically, but is that going to be the case here. Probably not.
Fossil fuels will be burnt to produce the very electricity that will generate this fuel.
Do not get me wrong, I am all for alternative energy, but this just isn't the miracle that everyone is looking for.
I will be very happy to be proven wrong.
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Im all for nuclear power, water power is getting quite good since they have some pretty high tech generators these days. Too bad they mess up nature where the dam is..
 
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If Humans have a 100 year life span, you would have to grow 5 x 10^7 = 50 million Humans per year in order to maintain a steady population of 5 x 10^9 = 5 billion Humans.


If it takes 10 years to grow a Human until the Brain is Mature, the total number of immature Humans being grown at any particular time would be 500 million.


If each Human has a 10 meter square area, or 100 square meters, the total Farm area would be 10^2 x 5 x 10^8 = 5 x 10^10 square meters, the area of a square about 2 x 10^5 meters on a side.


The Farm would fit in a square about 200 kilometers on a side.
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schockergd said:
How do you put that in your car?

I was mainly talking about automotive fuel.
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You can use the energy to make dimethyl ether, ammonia, etc. Sorenson names a few in the video.

You can also feasibly get this reactor technology down to the size of a backpack.

Or, we enhance battery tech in the next 5 years to the point where we have instant recharge and better storage capacity and then combine that with a far greater capacity to generate and use energy and you will have all of the utility with a smaller carbon footprint than ever before.
 
VinBed said:
You can use the energy to make dimethyl ether, ammonia, etc. Sorenson names a few in the video.

You can also feasibly get this reactor technology down to the size of a backpack.

Or, we enhance battery tech in the next 5 years to the point where we have instant recharge and better storage capacity and then combine that with a far greater capacity to generate and use energy and you will have all of the utility with a smaller carbon footprint than ever before.
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Instant recharge is 20 years away. The tech exists, but it is 200m per battery.
 
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