I have heard the first synthetic fuel was made in 1925. Germany synthesized fuel in WWII.
Harry On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 4:05 PM Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > H LV <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The article on Carbon Engineering I posted in thread called Carbon Capture >> and Renewable Fuels makes it clear that they are not hiding the fact that >> they need an outside energy source. >> > > Of course they do! It is not a perpetual motion machine. As you say, the > authors make this clear. > > If the source of energy were solar, nuclear, wind or cold fusion, this > might be a viable way to pull significant amounts of carbon from the > atmosphere. However, if it were cold fusion, we would not need the carbon > for synthetic chemical fuel, so the only purpose would be to reduce CO2 and > the threat of global warming. I think you could accomplish that more > readily by planting millions of trees and then, when they grow old and > start to die, by making charcoal out of them and burying it in the ground. > That would take decades but it could be done on a massive scale, and having > all those trees would be a great benefit in other ways. I hope that we will > not need the land because I hope agriculture will be done indoors, and meat > grown *in vitro*. > > This might be a good way to make synthetic fuel from wind electricity, but > I suppose electrolysis and some sort of hydrogen-based fuel would be > better. It does not take much water. You can even do it in arid places such > as North & South Dakota, where they have astounding amounts of potential > wind energy. I have read that if their potential wind energy were used to > make synthetic liquid fuel, it would produce more fuel than all of the oil > coming out of Middle East. (The potential energy when built up; not > present-day wind energy.) > > - Jed > >
