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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Carbon dioxide is a non-flammable gas. It is the product of combustion itself. So even if you recover it, it cant become fuel with the addition of something else. It can only be separated to use as an oxidizer.

Where do these so called scientists of today come from that think they can take a penny and make a dollar from it without putting in the remaining 99 cents?


11 posted on 06/08/2018 1:30:35 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Magnum44

“think they can take a penny and make a dollar from it without putting in the remaining 99 cents?”

The last 99 cents comes from the taxpayers


65 posted on 06/08/2018 3:03:18 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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Assume they aren’t touting carbon monoxide as the fuel to be produced. Then they didn’t mention that essential source of hydrogen, which chemically combined with carbon adds up to the hydrocarbon materials known as fuel. Guess where we typically get hydrogen from—no, it’s not water. Hint>NG.

They will need an inexpensive source of hydrogen to make this a real proposition. They also need a lot of inexpensive energy to drive a process to synthesize fuels from captured CO2. Overall just less expensive to chemically sequester carbon as carbonate rock as catalyzed by reaction with basaltic rock formations lying underground. Use the fuels already available. Two separate issues.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/iceland-carbon-capture-project-quickly-converts-carbon-dioxide-stone-180959365/


67 posted on 06/08/2018 3:13:26 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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Maybe the resultant "liquid fuel" will be in metal canisters that fit into pellet guns to 'fuel the projectile" - they still haven't figured out whether to let folks know all the gathered CO2 will be released back into the atmosphere...
95 posted on 06/09/2018 3:17:32 AM PDT by trebb (Too many "Conservatives" who think their opinions outweigh reality these days...)
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