Making Gasoline from Carbon Dioxide

www.technologyreview.com (MIT) ^ | 04/25/2007 | Kevin Bullis

[Red Badger]

PAGING ALGORE.....CALL YOUR OFFICE!.......

[Red Badger]

Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.......

If you want on or off the DIESEL "KnOcK" LIST just FReepmail me........

This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days......

[DManA]

My scientific instincts tell me that if we extracted enough CO2 from the atmosphere to make a dent on our energy needs, we would be plunged into a deep ice age.

[P-40]

Isn’t this the way the proposed Mars probes are supposed to get to the Red Planet and then come back home? They were supposed to make their fuel from the atmosphere in some way.

[11th Commandment]

This is great !!!!! unless you’re a F$&king PLANT!

[Red Badger]

...if we extracted enough CO2 from the atmosphere...

All the plants would starve.........

[Red Badger]

This is great !!!!! unless you’re a F$&king PLANT!

That's why the Dems would not aloow this.....Their base would disappear..........

[Red Badger]

The work is part of a growing effort to find practical uses for carbon dioxide...

Hmmm.....Let's have a soda and talk it over.........

[Bogey78O]

There are enough fruits and vegetables to keep them in power for a long time.

[JamesP81]

My scientific instincts tell me that if we extracted enough CO2 from the atmosphere to make a dent on our energy needs, we would be plunged into a deep ice age.

That may very well be so, and we may not be able to completely replace gasoline with this process, but I think we could supplement it. It might work as a short to medium term measure to get the monkey of OPEC off our backs.

[BuffaloJack]

Great, strip the CO2 from the atmosphere at a huge cost, kill off all the plants that need CO2 to grow, and then see which kills us first, starvation of freezing.

[Red Badger]

...and then see which kills us first, starvation of freezing.

Well, at least they will have solved the Global Warming problem.........

[TChris]

All the plants would starve.........

And, hence, nearly all life on Earth would be lost.

It's astonishing to me just how successful the loony-tunes left has been in demonizing a critical element of our atmosphere, making it into a pollutant. Very disturbing.

[mowowie]

good one

[r9etb]

My scientific instincts tell me that if we extracted enough CO2 from the atmosphere to make a dent on our energy needs, we would be plunged into a deep ice age.

OTOH, if we extracted the CO₂ from, say, the smokestack of a coal-fired power plant, then we'd be getting somewhere.

[Clemenza]

I’m still waiting for the day when we can get gasoline from Dihydrogen Oxide.

[DManA]

It’s fun to dream. Dreams are important. We’re in trouble if people stop dreaming.

[bicyclerepair]

carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas

I thought water vapor was the leading greenhouse gas.

[DManA]

Green house gasses are a good thing.

[robertpaulsen]

"... drive a reaction that converts carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide ..."

Ah, technology.

It used to be that we needed to burn gasoline in cars to create carbon monoxide. Now we can create this poisonous pollutant directly from the gas necessary for plant life, bypassing the whole gasoline making process.