Posted on 02/19/2014 2:00:54 PM PST by ckilmer
Hydrogen and natural gas are among the alternative fuels starting to get more attention as car companies work to reduce emissions. But Audi is exploring yet another option that you may not have heard much about yet: e-fuels.
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imho more energy independence and cheaper energy prices = less tyranny.
Just the Gulf of Mexico has 384 million acres. Microbes containing oil probably float, and there's plenty of free farm fertilizer runoff. The final replacement for petroleum will probably involve the open ocean because that's where all the energy in petroleum originally came from.
Won't ever happen though. Detroit City is too addicted to government handouts, like the Province of Quebec, here in Canada. The powers that be that run such places would lose their power base, if their voters were freed of welfare. Kinda like Washington, District Cesspool!
I'm down wid dat.
I'd rather see the metric of fuel cost per each mile driven. Granted, this will vary from vehicle to vehicle, but match vehicle size/weight and just change out the fuel used, in order to generate the metric.
The process does not require land, it requires a surface exposed to sunlight, which could be warehouse rooftops, vacant lots in urban areas (not Detroit, it is too cold for this process to work much of the year), or even floating islands in the Gulf of Mexico.
Or maybe the Everglades, if it could be assured that the system would be highly unlikely to rupture and spill hydrocarbons all over the environment.
How about repurposing brownfields or hazardous waste sites?
My last five cars,listed chronologically,have been Japanese,Japanese,German,German,German.
The two Japanese cars were absolutely trouble free...not a single unscheduled service visit over 100K miles (combined).But then I fell in love with diesel which required a switch to Germany.A few problems with the German cars,annoying for sure but I got free loaners each time.
My experience,in short,is...the Japanese win for reliability,the Germans win for "fun" (among other things).
yeah, me too. I even understand how they can get to that number — even if it is before taxes.
But it might get better with big volume. I’ve heard them say in years past that they think they can cut their costs in half when they scale up their volumes.
This is this stuff of Huffers' dreams.
As with solar energy, the best location is on the Equator at a high elevation with neglible cloud cover. That would be Quito, Ecuador. The economics would be several times better than Arizona.
Ten years ago the researchers were guesstimating 10,000 gallons an acre. That was a very loose back of the envelope figure for a technology that was still in the lab phase and nowhere near commercialization. The order of magnitude is right.
John Podesta is a director of Joule Unlimited.
Has PETA taken a position on this senseless slaughter of billions of innocent animals?
Does anybody know what to look for if you are interested in investing in this product? TY
Uhhhh. Haven’t we been told for generations that oil IS the result of micro-organisms??? Heaven forbid oil is a naturally occurring substance and renewable.
I don’t think they’re a public company
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