Diesel Fuel Technology "E-Diesel" Extracted From Air - Capital Reman
Technology is constantly evolving. It truly is an exciting time to be alive more than any other time in history. Two companies in Germany and Canada are making waves with something from science fiction: making diesel fuel out of thin air! These two firms are capturing CO2 from the air and finding innovative ways to process and sell it.
From 2016...
From article, (Canadian company, Carbon Engineering, is also banking on this technology for the future. The firm has just build a plant to pull one to two tons of carbon dioxide from the air on a daily basis. This quantity of CO2 can be turned into 500 liters of diesel fuel.
The process is rather simple in theory. The chemistry behind the feat goes like this: split water into hydrogen and oxygen atoms via electrolysis, add the separated hydrogen to CO2 to make carbon monoxide and water, then lastly build more hydrogen atoms to build up the hydrocarbon chains. The chemical process of extracting CO2 from the atmosphere isn’t exactly new, with the last part of the equation going back to the 1920s and coined as the “Fischer-Tropsch Process”. However, only now has this technology become efficient and affordable to do it on a wide scale basis. The system does require electricity but if the plants use renewable electricity they can produce diesel fuel that is carbon neutral. Once the fuel is burned in an engine the only CO2 that returns to the atmosphere is same that was taken in the first place. The entire system is a closed loop. Fossil fuels, on the other hand, add a surplus amount of CO2 back to the atmosphere.
Sunfire estimates that e-diesel will sell for €1.5 per liter. However, in the United States that equates to $6.38 per gallon making it not economically feasible with regular diesel. The current price of diesel in the UK is €1.19 per liter. A lot of what sets the price of fuel depends on government policy.)
The process is rather simple in theory. The chemistry behind the feat goes like this: split water into hydrogen and oxygen atoms via electrolysis, add the separated hydrogen to CO2 to make carbon monoxide and water, then lastly build more hydrogen atoms to build up the hydrocarbon chains. The chemical process of extracting CO2 from the atmosphere isn’t exactly new, with the last part of the equation going back to the 1920s and coined as the “Fischer-Tropsch Process”. However, only now has this technology become efficient and affordable to do it on a wide scale basis. The system does require electricity but if the plants use renewable electricity they can produce diesel fuel that is carbon neutral. Once the fuel is burned in an engine the only CO2 that returns to the atmosphere is same that was taken in the first place. The entire system is a closed loop. Fossil fuels, on the other hand, add a surplus amount of CO2 back to the atmosphere.
Sunfire estimates that e-diesel will sell for €1.5 per liter. However, in the United States that equates to $6.38 per gallon making it not economically feasible with regular diesel. The current price of diesel in the UK is €1.19 per liter. A lot of what sets the price of fuel depends on government policy.)
Me, "It is cheaper to produce hydrocarbon fuels like ethanol, or diesel, from electricity (Solar or wind), H2O (Water) and CO2 (Carbon dioxide) and a catalyst as back up fuels for when the wind is not blowing and the sun is not shinning. Diesel in this instance could be used to power a Diesel power plant. Although, Ethanol is a cleaner and less complex hydrocarbon to use. Why just put diesel back into a vehicle to burn? Electric cars are much better at using power and cleaner than diesel vehicles. What is needed is a way of using this created fuel right where it is created, for electrical power use, for dispersal, all around that country."
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