Ya mean I can drink CO2?
“Not that I share the liberal hysteria about “climate change”.... “
The lead article in the Tampa Tribune today was titled something like, “Rising sea level makes costal property worthless.” Obviously, they haven’t tried to buy a condo on the beach recently.
Does the process cost more energy than is contained by the Ethanol?
If it does, then the Ethanol isn’t ‘fuel’. It’s just a bait for government subsidy.
Yeah....right.
Looks like it makes Jack Daniels, too.
That's nothing. My body has a reaction that turns ethanol into pee. Ah, science.
Averting a non existant hazard seems like a sure thing. If everybody doesn’t die in 50 years, the environuts can claim that they were successful.
There will now be a shortage of CO2 and we will have MAN MADE global cooling.
The horror!!!
STARVE THE TREES!
Wonderful. Now they will mandate 25% ethanol in gasoline and none of my small engines will make it through even one season.
Oh no, now they’ll put more of that crap in our gas.
pretty soon they’ll be sucking all the CO2 outa the air and plants will be dying, then they will complain about that.
From a more detailed article....
“Now let’s talk about the energy efficiency. The energy efficiency is essentially the energy you store divided by the energy you put into the reaction. We haven’t really investigated this, but we’re ballparking it around 20 percent, which is low. This is why, in the paper, we actually said that the overpotential (which defines the energy efficiency) is probably too high for the catalyst as it currently stands to be used commercially.”
Doesn’t look all that promising to me with a 20% efficiency. And that doesn’t count the energy/expemse needed to capture, store the CO2.
I’m also skeptical about a system that uses the output of a reaction (burning ethanal produces CO2) as part of its input without also inputting net energy. Sounds like a perpetual motion machine.
If the article let me know where the hydrogen in the ethanol molecules is coming from, I could probably tell you whether the process is going to be economically viable.
If the politics of destroying capitalism was not so strong, there are ways of scrubbing CO2 without the draconian means of the environmentalists (no coal, no povs, etc.) that could drastically reduce emissions and aid the third world economies at the same time. Who knows, we could eventually help bring on another ice age which is due soon.
It is a plot to kill all the plants and take humans with them.
“...to help avert climate change.”
With all due respect to the highly credentialled people who made this scientific discovery and who wrote and approved of this press release, the climate is ALWAYS changing.
In fact, within the last 25,000 years the land where the modern city of Chicago is located was under a mile of glacial ice. That was not the first time that this area was covered by a glacier. It will not be last.
The question is not whether or not the climate is changing. The question is this: to what extent is human activity changing the climate for the worse, especially to where it cases damage to the biosphere?
It seems to me that since almost all solutions demanded by advocates of “climate change” seem to converge on creating the socialist Utopia, that we are seeing more of an ideological agenda at work than the pursuit of true and honest science.
and that is the last we will ever hear ofit
..... Well .... This simply won’t do!!!!! ...... Don’t people realize that the Earth needs as much CO2 as possible to keep the climate scare alive!!! Using it for practical means just isn’t practical!
Aside from the fact that this whole climate change scam is nothing but a scam...My wife’s mother was dear friends with a couple whose husband was a senior engineer with SoCal Edison, a major utility, and he told me that most electric power plants using fossil fuels, i.e. natural gas or liquid fuels, would be lucky if they achieved 18% efficiency. Anything we can do to improve that model or develop new models would be helpful. But then, there is something missing here...which is the fact when God created everything on earth in such an incredible balance in what we call nature, do you suppose that the power to create such a hugely complex system could also anticipate the stupidity of lowly earth beings to phuck it all up...me thinks so...