Synthetic Petrol/Gasoline

Jan 14, 2008 16:50

I don't know how many of my friends know anything about engineering...but this isn't too difficult to understand.

Basically, they take a ring of solar panels and focus the enervy from the array to break up molecules.
(The basis is heat, you can make something similar at home....just not this cool. Well...maybe some people could if they had the cash.)

Anyway, they can seperate water into O2 and H2. That's pretty cool.

They can then take that H2 and some CO (broken up from C02--the primary gas blamed for greenhouse effects that you produce when you breathe) and make other things..

Other things in the end like Methanol, Ethanol...gasoline, etc.

Want to know more (like about it or how it works)...click here: or here: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan08/5866.

But this is really cool.

Though, if you don't read it, I should point out now that they don't think it will be a commercialized process for 15 to 20 years.

So...you'll all have to wait for the prices to go down.

[I love being a member of IEEE...we learn about such cool stuff.]

fuel, science, engineering, gas, fossil fuel, cr5

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