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Bonneville Salt Flats Discussion => Bonneville General Chat => Topic started by: kiwi belly tank on May 05, 2015, 08:40:27 AM
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Gidday! The Minister Dr Wanka seems to be right on top of it. "Wanka Said":mrgreen:
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2015/05/03/e-diesel-audi-invents-way-to-create-crude-fossil-fuels-from-mixture-of-air-and-water/
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Hmmm . . .
Okay, the process is in place - but can it be economically scaled?
If "The ingredients are processed under high temperatures and pressures", where is the processing energy coming from? If the goal is a carbon neutral fuel, you're likely looking at solar or wind. But how efficient is the process? How much solar and wind is it going to take to produce blue crude? And at that point, it still needs to be refined.
The tree-hugging hippie in me would love to see this work, but the promise of fuel from water has been around longer than the myth of the 100 mpg carburetor.
Still, I think Audi brings a degree of credibility to this.
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700 new classes?
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(yawn...) Ho hum. This is about as exciting as the old episode of
Superman on television (from about 50 years ago), in which an
inventor came up with a way to make gold from peanut shells and
platinum (which was more expensive than gold).
By the way, the 100 mpg carburetor isn't an "overall" myth. I had
one -- totally stock -- that delivered about 200 real mpg on my
unmodified Honda 50 motorcycle about 1975.