If you really want to change solar energy and Carbon Dioxide into fuel, I have a great device for you.
It is essentially free, easy to produce, and can be sited almost anywhere.
In fact, I have about a dozen of them standing in my yard right now.
And, every now and then, I use one of them to heat my house for a season. At Christmastime, I use a small one as a decoration in my house, and hang little lights on it.
Unfortunately, the little lights are powered off the grid,,,
Great idea now how do you put them I’m your vehicles liquid fuel tank? grinding them up to a fine powder and mixing with water or even solvent won’t work. However the Chinese have come up with a way to convert any plant material directly into aromatic hydrocarbons which are identical to fossil hydrocarbons. Thus ending the fuel food debate. for corn take the kernels feed the cows,chickens and pigs and take the cobs and stocks and make fuel with that. researchers have shown that no plow under is needed with a winter cover crop like winter rye or alfalfa. The root process has been known since the 1970s south Africa uses it to make petrol to this very day from coal syngas but biomass syngas has a better CO/H ratio and actually is more efficient because of that fact
This is the DOI of the relevant scientific paper.
dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2016.08.108
Everyone should read the study about one billion tons of waste biomass and municipal wastes produced each year. That is enough btu to power 1/3 of all our vehicles even after conversion to alcohols or synthetic hydrocarbons.
The open fuel act would require auto makers to include the programming for wide range O2 sensors to recognize the btu content of the fuel mixture being burnt. No vehicle since the 1990s has used natural rubber seals EVERY car made today uses neoprene or nitrile seals and are immune to alcohols any of them from methanol to propanol and all in between.
All OBDII vehicles have at least two onboard wide lamba O2 sensors as required by existing federal laws these sensors along with proper programming are all that is needed to make any existing OBDII vehicle fuel agnostic. since the elimination of leaded fuels all vehicles have hardened exhaust valve seats this too is industry wide and mandatory.
I work in oil and gas and am all for the open fuel act it frees Americans to uses any domestic produced fuel, methanol being a huge plus given the shale gas revolution. Methane to methanol is an easy industry process, coal to alcohols via syngas, coal to synthetic hydrocarbons via syngas like the south africans. mixed alcohols like Texas A&M mixhol process for agricultural wastes, landfill sites and flare gases.
The list goes on and on we could eliminate ALL oil imports in less than a decade just with normal vehicle turn over this says nothing of reprogramming existing vehicles which is currently a federal offence.