Posted on 10/18/2012 8:36:34 PM PDT by Steelfish
Sounds like using corn for fuel, it will probably take more energy input than what you get out of it.
“........Company officials say they had produced five litres of petrol in less than three months from a small refinery......”
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Five liters in less than three months? I’m sure this will really be cost effective and completely eliminate the need to actually drill for oil. I expect Obama & crew to announce an award of 1/2 billion dollars to these folks any day now.
Oh my god! This is funnier than something from the onion! My wife and I couldn’t stop cracking up.
Sounds like the Solyndra execs have setup shop in the UK.
Thats what I want to know. All these stupid “breakthroughs” and “holy grails” are bunk every time we find out you have to feed more energy in than you get out.
Somehow, just somehow, even if they can truly do this, I will bet one hundred and eleventy billion dollars that it requires much more energy (just from the electrolysis part alone), than you actually get from the petrol. But with the word “climate change” inserted eleventy billion times, they are sure to get lots of free government money to develop it, and will retire in the bahamas just before the government realizes it isn’t worth the investment.
Nothing like using a couple of megawatts to produce a few kilowatts of energy, but hey we are saving the planet.
Correct, there is no way around the First Law of Thermodynamics. Depending on the effeciency of the process, though, it could be useful as a storage medium for nuclear or hydroelectric power *IF* it is cheaper than pumping oil from the ground.
Since plants need carbon dioxide to live, if this technology really works well won’t we potentially be reducing plant growth by reducing CO2 levels?
I have discovered a way to make bridges from sparrow farts. It takes a little while depending on the length of the fart and the bridge. Contact me with your bank data right away and we’ll work something out.
Such a deal! Especially when you live in a place, like the UK, where they have unlimited, free electricity to such all this ‘petrol’ out of the air for free......
Nothing like a desert planet. Maybe they can grow Arabs next.
They get them from Dragon’s teeth, i think.
And what is the cost per liter to produce it?
British Engineers Produce Something Completely Impractical In The Real World.
5 liters = 1.32 gallons. I could fill my pickup in no time.
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