Posted on 04/27/2015 11:16:12 AM PDT by Hostage
Audi is making a new fuel for internal combustion engines that has the potential to make a big dent when it comes to climate change – that's because the synthetic diesel is made from just water and carbon dioxide.
The company's pilot plant, which is operated by German startup Sunfire in Dresden, produced its first batches of the "e-diesel" this month. German Federal Minister of Education and Research Johanna Wanka put a few liters of the fuel in her work car, an Audi A8, to commemorate the accomplishment.
The base fuel is referred to as "blue crude," and begins by taking electricity from renewable sources like wind, solar or hydropower and using it to produce hydrogen from water via reversible electrolysis. The hydrogen is then mixed with CO2 that has been converted into CO in two chemical processes and the resulting reactions produce a liquid made from long-chain hydrocarbons – this is blue crude, which is then refined to create the end product, the synthetic e-diesel.
Audi says that the carbon dioxide used in the process is currently supplied by a biogas facility but, further adding to the green impacts of the process, some of the CO2 is captured directly from the ambient air, taking the greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere.
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Rainbows and feed for the unicorns.
You know it’s good to learn that ‘she’ is actually a ‘he’ because ‘she’ is too ugly to be a ‘she’ and would probably never find a husband. On the other hand, ‘he’ is too wimpy to be a ‘he’ and likely never find a wife unless such a wife was also a ‘he’ who thought the she/he was a ‘she’.
Oh wait, the US Supreme Court is going to solve all these types of problems tomorrow!
God Bless America!
I am not confused, except when I am.
No, I'm not kidding.
The Diesel was originally built to burn coal.
OMG.
We are doomed...............
“...LENR-based generation.”
I haven’t seen a thread on that in ages, have they finally arrested that fraudster?
I don’t understand.
Gay guys want to look like women, but real men would not want them, only other gay guys that really want men, but not to look like women................
4% seems to be a good upper bound (approx. concentration to ones exhalations).
You know, as I keep sipping on this shot of JD, you’re making more and more sense!
“Audi just created diesel fuel from air and water”
Correction: Audi just created diesel fuel from air + water + energy + money
This is NOT a new energy source. It is a form of energy storage that is only 70% efficient. It will have to compete against other forms of energy storage like batteries.
And how many gallons of fossil fuels must be consumed to generate the energy to produce a single gallon of this "green" fuel?
And only $3,000 a gallon.
Oh .... about 14, 14 and a half, ....on a good day.
What is the byproduct? I hope it’s water.
Then drink until I’m smart!...................
Because you obviously do not believe that something can come from nothing! :-)
You know you sound like you could be the brother of the last girl I dated.
She told me I better tell her she looks good or keep drinking until she does!
It’s finally 2015, and we STILL haven’t achieved fusion...
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