Synthetic Diesel from CO2 and H20

rkundrat · 04-28-2015, 08:12 AM

Soot-free, high cetane. Who's in for importing a few barrels!

https://www.audi-mediaservices.com/p...he_future.html

What_A_D · 04-28-2015, 05:03 PM

This topic was posted on here a few months ago, this process is called Fischer-Tropsch and has been around since the early 1900's.

rkundrat · 04-28-2015, 05:33 PM

Oh sorry, missed it.

montr · 04-28-2015, 07:36 PM

The story is also on CNN
http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/28/tech...ter/index.html

What_A_D · 04-28-2015, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by rkundrat

Oh sorry, missed it.

No worries. I work in the biofuels industry and can say that while it is cool that they buit a pilot scale plant of this, the overall efficiency of the path they chose is very low and there are many other ways of achieving this same end product.

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