Oh we've achieved it, alright. We just can keep it going...............
Posted on 04/27/2015 11:16:12 AM PDT by Hostage
Audi is making a new fuel for internal combustion engines that has the potential to make a big dent when it comes to climate change – that's because the synthetic diesel is made from just water and carbon dioxide.
The company's pilot plant, which is operated by German startup Sunfire in Dresden, produced its first batches of the "e-diesel" this month. German Federal Minister of Education and Research Johanna Wanka put a few liters of the fuel in her work car, an Audi A8, to commemorate the accomplishment.
The base fuel is referred to as "blue crude," and begins by taking electricity from renewable sources like wind, solar or hydropower and using it to produce hydrogen from water via reversible electrolysis. The hydrogen is then mixed with CO2 that has been converted into CO in two chemical processes and the resulting reactions produce a liquid made from long-chain hydrocarbons – this is blue crude, which is then refined to create the end product, the synthetic e-diesel.
Audi says that the carbon dioxide used in the process is currently supplied by a biogas facility but, further adding to the green impacts of the process, some of the CO2 is captured directly from the ambient air, taking the greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere.
(Excerpt) Read more at gizmag.com ...
The greenies will still complain.
I did a google news search for “fusion” just now. All of the stories are about either fashion design or foodie trends. Good think we have our priorities straight.
Ping.
If you drink enough, she’ll be beautiful and smart!.............
Went to bed at two with a ten, woke up at ten with a two...............
Oh we've achieved it, alright. We just can keep it going...............
Yeah, yeah...I was referring to controlled fusion...for the production of other forms of energy....all the time, money, and energy we wasted on so-called “green” energy, we could have used to work on controlled fusion....and provide nearly limitless energy for everyone in the US...the era of “too cheap to meter”....
Controlling it, that’s the tricky part..................
Audi = corporate giant. VW, largest car company in Europe.
I own an Audi diesel A3. Like a lot, but I think it will be a long time before I get access to this fuel.
Since you asked, Andrea Rossi’s E-CAT results were confirmed by an independent test run last October. He no more deserves to be arrested than Galileo was.
It does, however require about twice the electrical power as the fuel is capable of releasing. Electrical power is one thing a nuclear powered aircraft carrier has in abundance.
Thank you, that was already covered in several posts. Good to see you catch on.
Whatever it turns into, it would happen anyway using fossil fuels.
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Exactly.
The Germans have been on to synthetic fuels for a long time.
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OK, please provide evidence of a net efficiency gain by using this fuel generation process. And please include evidence of how it provides more fuel economy than the existing processes. Thanks!
No mention of the cost. An article could be written how America makes ethanol from dirt...(from the corn that grows there). That doesn’t tell us how it takes 1.5 gallons of diesel to produce 1 gallon of ethanol.
If it takes 5 bucks of electrical energy to make one gallon of e-diesel (from air and water!!) it’s not exactly environmentally friendly.
> OK, please provide evidence of a net efficiency gain by
> using this fuel generation process.
We are not talking about perpetual motion here.
You can’t run trucks on coal or electricity or natural gas or enriched uranium.
Trucks run on diesel. Using the aforementioned fuels to synthesize diesel, with the attendant efficiency losses, is what we are talking about.
The only question remaining, by my reckoning, is, “Is the process comparable in cost, after factoring in the efficiency losses, to the current method of processing diesel?”
At the end of WWII, when Germany no longer had access to petroleum in large enough quantities, the cost was not a first order concern.
And it adds three inches to your p***s, guaranteed.
Yes, but that means pointing to the exhaust is not a valid criticism. You'd have the exhaust anyway. But by doing this you get a net subtraction of CO2 when compared to using fossil fuels.
between $4.24/gal to $6.37/gal
http://www.energytrendsinsider.com/2015/04/30/is-audis-carbon-neutral-diesel-a-game-changer/
The Economics of the Process
i think the min for plant life is 180 ppm. The max was reached 250 million yrs ago at 2000 ppm. Currently it is 400ppm.
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