Converting CO2 to fuel: global warming solved?
Posted by phvideos · 25 Comments
James May talks to the people who try to convert the greenhouse gas CO2 to synthetic fuel.
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Great effort! The Americans will love it because it makes them independent. Please correct me if i am wrong: The remaining problem is to get down the high CO2 concentration out of the atmosphere, fpr restoring or stabilizing the climate. Okay, the increase will be stopped, but istn the actual concentration way too high for our climate system?
by the way: “can you dedog my stick?” haha!
lol i feel so out of place with all these science buffs going at it hahahahaha, i understand how this works though…truly amazing how mankind has fucked this planet up…but there’s always a way to fix it…..eventually haha
@narutofan9285
If you take CO2 out of the atmosphere, transform it into petrol using solar energy and then burn it again, the emissions are zero. (apart from what emissions u create building and maintaining the machine)
i guess its more like a recyceling of the greenhouse gasses? bit like a steam engien..
Great points, I was only considering the efficiency of the processes, not the practicality. I think electric is still more practical than this however. Some of the hydrogen cars are getting better, and I think so far they are probably the best choice if the infrastructure existed. I think the infrastructure switch can be made. I just think there are more efficient and practical ways to power cars than this, still a cool video and a creative idea though. I loved your reply to my comment.
@ExplosiveScience
Yes, but the infrastructure for vehicles running on diesel/petrol is already in place (with a rediculous price tag I might add). Additionally, filling a tank in mere seconds is much more appealing than having to wait for hours to recharge batteries. I don’t want an electric car unless it has liquid batteries (hydrogen peroxide or other).
I like it.
Newtonmeters is correct. Nothing new is formed, but it is very impractical. Why run solar energy through extra systems, more will just be lost than using it directly as electricity.
I agree, this is a feel good bit of crappy science, I don’t know with whats all the neg feedback to your comment is about. Prob by hippies !
Probably not much in repair costs. Contrary to using solar cells, they are using mirrors–which have a very low upkeep cost.
As for the video: 3-5 gallons of liquid fuel from CO2 gas is pretty phenomenal. CO2 is a very light gas. The equivalent mass of this within 3 gallons of liquid is a huge volume/mass.
Not to say this is the most efficient way, but maybe they’ll figure out something.
This fuel doesn’t produce greehouse gasses, it’ll produce nothing new at all.
It’s like taking a piece of cake, breaking it into it’s parts, then putting it back on the plate as the same piece of cake.
With petrol we’re taking a piece of cake, eating it and putting back a turd.
But yeh it’s impractical in this form.
thats what u call an evolution to the ray heat gun.
Use greenhouse gasses produced from the back of the cars, to produce fuel that will still end up making greenhouse gasses. It’s not really solving the global warming problem, but at least it reduces the amount of energy we use to refine gasoline. Unless they can get the price (and the size) down, I don’t see this contraption being in every persons front yard.
The question is repair costs, how long do these things run before you have to replace them?
This is stupid. First of all, you need an energy source much more powerful than solar to make this practical in even the few application in which it has potential. So, say you’re using nuclear power instead. Even then, the cost of the fuel produced would be so enormous that it would only have a few useful applications, mostly (if not exclusively) military – for instance, producing jet fuel on an aircraft carrier.
oo.You neead just a rafinery of 1000 000 $ to make you 3-5 galons of fuel a da. Briliant
3-5 gallons is enoguh for a average motorist
you mean about 80 000 000 barrels of oil a day.
And then you run out of oil to refine. OOPS
3-5 gallons a day isn’t much considering the hundreds of thousands of barrels of gasoline refined every day
yes I am mentally retarded
Are you stupid ?
Fuck you and FUCK USA
There is no such thing as global warming. Chuck Norris was cold so he turned the Sun up.
Worst nightmare of the ants. Beware ants we are devising better ways of getting you.
great no more energy crisis these scientists should be very well awarded for this thank you USA USA USA !!! at least they are trying to m8k mur fuel instead of trying to save it i hope this gets in2 full scale world production