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Ban of sales of IC engined cars to support electric cars by 2040
AdeV:
--- Quote from: seadog on July 29, 2017, 06:13:30 AM ---Great, we use CO2 from the atmosphere to create a fuel and thereby solve the problem of emissions? Am I missing something obvious here, or is there a fundamental flaw in what here? What happens when the fuel is used,or is the intention just to put it in tanks and never use it?
Yes, it produces CO2. Hmmm :Doh:
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Assuming you believe that manmade atmospheric CO2 is causing global warming/climate change, then - provided the electricity you use to generate the hydrogen used in the reaction is renewable - wind, solar, fusion if it ever happens - then this is a way of extending the life of existing infrastructure without increasing the atmospheric CO2 concentration. The ultimate in green petrol...
It doesn't address the issues of NOx and city pollution, no.
mattinker:
--- Quote from: seadog on July 29, 2017, 06:13:30 AM --- Am I missing something obvious here, or is there a fundamental flaw in what here? What happens when the fuel is used,or is the intention just to put it in tanks and never use it?
Yes, it produces CO2. Hmmm :Doh:
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The idea is that you use the CO2 from the atmosphere rather than getting it out of the ground and increasing the percentage of CO2 in the air. This is the thinking behind burning wood as an ecological thing, the CO2 cycle doesn't make things worse!
Regards, Matthew.
S. Heslop:
There's be alot of energy involved in collecting the CO2 from the atmosphere, and then alot of energy involved in converting it back to a useable fuel. I can't imagine it'd ever be an efficient process, or make a better store of energy than batteries or the fabled hydrogen.
Myself i'm more worried about self driving cars. I can see that once they become a thing insurance rates will skyrocket for regular cars, so you'll have to enslave yourself to Google Facebook owned computer controlled wifi connected cars that transmit your whereabouts to advertisers, your boss, and anyone else that pays for it. Who then use that information to drive you past as many billboards and fast food chains as possible on the ride home. In the year 2040 they'll have speech recognition good enough to overhear and automatically process all your conversations and use that to tailor adverts and build your credit rating and insurance rates on.
But I say that like we're not already living in that world. I just don't want even more aspects of my life controlled by huge unethical tech companies.
PekkaNF:
That would be Fischer–Tropsch process derivate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process
Democracy is that we can choose whoever politician that obeys bankkers, energy sector and worse. Populists are worst ofcourse.
Pekka
chipenter:
Just to change the subject slitly there is recyicling https://www.facebook.com/michelle.tangey/videos/768491296528174/ .
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