Comments on: Converting Water and CO2 into Fuel

By: Joel Keller

Joel Keller — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:51:32 +0000

Syngas, a mixture of CO and Hydrogen, has a typical BTU content of between 125 and 200 per standard cubic foot. This is way too low to use as fuel in an internal combustion engine. It can be used only as boiler fuel to create steam.

So do these scientists believe they’ve created an invention that will power the 21st century version of the Stanley Steamer?

By: Frisbee

Frisbee — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:58:39 +0000

Julie.. Such a device would be great. The technology in the report, however requires huge amounts of concentrated solar electricity.

By: JulieCJ

JulieCJ — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:52:56 +0000

I’m no scientist but, if I’m reading this right, the process could be applied directly to individual cars, especially hydrogen hybrids. The tailpipe could be attached to this machine (miniaturized, of course). When the car is running on hydrogen, the resultant water could be collected. Remove the catalytic converters (etc.) and then take the tailpipe materials from when the car is running on gasoline and pump them into this gadget, too. All necessary necessary materials are then present. They would be held in tanks until enough materials were present that the machine would automatically start up and use up the materials, pumping the resultant fuel into the gas tank. While it probably wouldn’t provide all the fuel necessary to run the vehicle, it could stretch the between fill ups a bit – and nothing would be released into the atmosphere! Looks like a win-win situation.

By: Jim Hall

Jim Hall — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:48:18 +0000

Sounds doable to me. We should always look to nature first to solve our problems.

Ever run into a spider web that could just about hold you back? Imagine a car built out of similar materials? Talk about Nature’s way of creating some of the best engineering and use of resources!

If we look first to Nature, we wouldn’t have to always reinvent the wheel. We just have to check our Human ego’s at the door before entering.

By: Francisco A Roque

Francisco A Roque — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:03:07 +0000

Very good idea, hope it gets done ASAP so we may stop importing most of the oil we need and start saving the planet.