British engineers produce amazing 'petrol from air' technology
British engineers produce amazing 'petrol from air' technology - Telegraph
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British engineers produce amazing 'petrol from air' technology
British engineers produce amazing 'petrol from air' technology - Telegraph
There are many ways to obtain and create fuel; the question is whether it is cost-effective or not.
That's probably the most relevant point, cost effectiveness. I'm not sure I like the idea of ideas that will come off to the scientifically-illiterate public as clean energy breakthroughs but will allow us to put off moving away from terribly dirty gasoline-driven automobiles, but this would still most likely be a good method to bridge the gap as oil production rates decline. This process does remove some CO2 from the atmosphere, however the main concern I would have if it went into large-scale use would be the amount of chlorine produced instead as a byproduct of sodium hydroxide production.
It's just a battery basically. Currently a very inefficient and unwieldy battery. Batteries are not energy sources.
I like how people insist on staying with combustion engines.
So basically what you've done there is suggest that we replace all combustion engine based transport with pedalling.
I fail to see how this is a major game-changer or it being amazing and revolutionary, if we were to produce hydrogen and use it as a fuel it would have the exact same effect.