So crazy it's true: Air is turned into gasoline.....Who is buying this story?.

[Shallow]

https://now.msn.com/gasoline-made-from-air

As alchemies go, this one is almost as good as water into wine. A team of scientists at the English firm Air Fuel Synthesis has turned air — specifically, carbon dioxide and water vapor — into five liters of gasoline. "It looks and smells like petrol but it's a much cleaner product than petrol derived from fossil oil," a company spokesman said. Unlike some renewable power sources for cars, this new gasoline can be used in existing engines — no adaptations or new cars necessary. "It sounds too good to be true, but it is true," one industry expert said. We have a few questions, but we're still pretty excited. [Source]


Read the long version: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...t-in-fight-against-energy-crisis-8217382.html

 

[Pullmyfinger]

If it is true the oil companies will buy it and just put it away forever.

 

[God]

A little late for April fools' joke :unknw:

 

[Butch]

Yea sure.

 

[tboy]

I'll wait until I see news on a more trustworthy site....but still, like many other "fuels" it has to be cost effective to work.....if it costs more to make, than conventional fuel, it will never leave the ground until the cost of conventional fuel is prohibitive.

I hope they keep working on it and it becomes a viable alternative.....just for cleaning the air alone should be worth something.....

 

[plumber]

https://now.msn.com/gasoline-made-from-air

As alchemies go, this one is almost as good as water into wine. A team of scientists at the English firm Air Fuel Synthesis has turned air — specifically, carbon dioxide and water vapor — into five liters of gasoline. "It looks and smells like petrol but it's a much cleaner product than petrol derived from fossil oil," a company spokesman said. Unlike some renewable power sources for cars, this new gasoline can be used in existing engines — no adaptations or new cars necessary. "It sounds too good to be true, but it is true," one industry expert said. We have a few questions, but we're still pretty excited. [Source]


Read the long version: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...t-in-fight-against-energy-crisis-8217382.html

gasoline I don't think so but natural gas maybe lol from the back end

 

[Jesus Quintana]

The chemistry of the transformation requires a still complicated series of steps and the use of enough electricity to make other methods of energy production, by comparison, significantly more efficient and cost effective. A Forbes article that addressed the process characterized the inefficiencies as "grotesque" suggesting it would be far cheaper to use the electricity to power electric cars or even "to electrolyse water to run fuel cells in cars." Proponents of the technology recognize the costs inherent in process-essential steps like carbon capture but expect that the prices will fall as the technology develops.

 

[jack bauer]

It's certainly possible but not energy-efficient or commercially viable.