Posted on 04/18/2021 5:23:23 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Porsche thinks its synthetic gasoline, which it calls E-Fuel, could be as clean as an electric vehicle. First, it needs to prove that theory, and that starts this year. In fact, it starts today. The German company on Tuesday said drivers and their vehicles participating in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup race series will be topped off with the renewable E-Fuel. The series kicks off today in Zandvoort, Netherlands, and the fuel will power the race cars through the whole season to test its performance and efficiency.
Porsche expects this first iteration of the E-Fuel to burn with 85% fewer emissions than regular ol' gasoline, and on top of that, the synthetic gas filling up race cars today is blended to current market standards for passenger vehicles. To be clear, the fuel isn't E-Fuel in its final form, which promises greener days for the internal combustion engine. Sourced from Porsche and partner ExxonMobil's plant in Chile, the companies plan to produce over 34,000 gallons of the fuel through 2022 to continue testing. The plant splits water into hydrogen and oxygen, and CO2 is filtered out of the air and processed with the hydrogen to create synthetic methanol. From there, a secretive ExxonMobil methanol-to-gasoline operation takes place to create renewable gasoline.
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They could use solar power....no? Would need to upgrade the size of solar energy plants. Power plants could burn easy clean alcohols or pure veggie-table oils....wouldnt need fossil fuels as much. Byebye tesla....fun while it lasted.
I heard about this weeks ago, they are doing in in a part
of South America that has lots of wind and so wind turbines
are generating the electricity for the electrolysis process
seems doable. Also, they remove CO2 from the air which aids
the excess CO2 from cars.
There was a movie about this...
Cars 3
Nope, doesn't work. Would you choose a process where the feedstock (air) contains only 400 ppm of CO2? There's no way you can economically separate that low concentration -- it is an expensive and inefficient process.
The most efficient and economical way of producing carbon dioxide is from ammonia. Ammonia is produced from natural gas. Around 80% of ammonia produced around the world is used as plant fertilizer.
Desulphurzed methane (natural gas) is steam reformed to CO + 3 H2. Catalytic shift conversion converts the carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide and more hydrogen: CO + H2O → CO2 + H2. The CO2 is a byproduct and is sold to industries that need it.
So it all comes down to NATURAL GAS.
You can also get huge amounts of CO2 from cement kilns. Calcium oxide is a crucial ingredient in modern cement and is also used as a chemical flux in smelting. Industrial calcination emits carbon dioxide: CaCO3 (limestone) + Heat → CaO + CO2.
Fossil fuel powered power plants have 14% CO2 in their flue gasses which is 140,000 ppm CO2.
Stopped by my Porsche dealer on the way and topped up my tank. Twenty gallons was only $879.37.
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