On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:30:21PM +1300, LizR wrote: > On 25 February 2014 12:20, John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Liz, I will sign up for your 101 chemistry class. > > > > Sadly not my strong point, as I'm sure you realise. I just know that car > exhausts produce CO2 and water vapour (plus a bit of lead etc) so I'm > guessing one can in theory reconstitute these substances back into petrol, > using a suitable amount of energy, catalysts etc. (If plants can do it, I > figure we should be able to. Surely human ingenuity can match plants' ?! > Maybe not...)
Actually, principle, we should be able to surpass plants in efficiency. Plants are only about 10% efficient, IIRC, and the best artificial photosynthetic cell to date is only about half that. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
