Gasoline From Thin Air

Sounds like something from the tabloids, but as this article from The Independent indicates, UK scientists may be onto a process to turn air into gasoline.

A small British company has produced the first “petrol from air” using a revolutionary technology that promises to solve the energy crisis as well as helping to curb global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Air Fuel Synthesis in Stockton-on-Tees has produced five litres of petrol since August when it switched on a small refinery that manufactures gasoline from carbon dioxide and water vapour.
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The company hopes that within two years it will build a larger, commercial-scale plant capable of producing a ton of petrol a day. It also plans to produce green aviation fuel to make airline travel more carbon-neutral.

The “catch” here is carbon capture … getting it out of the atmosphere is a very expensive process. However, thanks to global warming there are hundreds of millions of dollars being sunk into research across the globe on how to capture carbon more efficiently (and cheaply). What the scientists at Air Fuel Synthesis may be onto is a way to simultaneously remove carbon from the environment and store renewable energy (wind, solar, geothermal) as energy in the form of something we tend to use a lot of — gasoline.

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