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Car Coach Reports : Synthetic gas to replace
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Not watching it (maybe later) but hasn't synthetic fuels been around for a while? I wonder how much they cost.
I remember when biodiesel was "big". I rather liked the stuff, was willing to pay a bit extra to run a bio blend. Thing is, just a few years after my model year car came out, it seems that OEM's started putting really low limits on allowable biodiesel content. B20 did have an impact on emissions-out and I want to say, that was part of the problem. [Maybe it was more about the ever-increasing fuel pressure and risks that biodiesel blends could carry, not sure.] Change the chemicals going in, that changes the chemical byproducts coming out. So... is emissions out the same as regular non-synthetic gasoline?
Of course, energy in / energy out. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Where does the energy going into this come from?
I remember when biodiesel was "big". I rather liked the stuff, was willing to pay a bit extra to run a bio blend. Thing is, just a few years after my model year car came out, it seems that OEM's started putting really low limits on allowable biodiesel content. B20 did have an impact on emissions-out and I want to say, that was part of the problem. [Maybe it was more about the ever-increasing fuel pressure and risks that biodiesel blends could carry, not sure.] Change the chemicals going in, that changes the chemical byproducts coming out. So... is emissions out the same as regular non-synthetic gasoline?
Of course, energy in / energy out. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Where does the energy going into this come from?
The Nazis during WW2 created syn fuel out of coal.
I recall that. Not much "saving the earth" if one does that, I don't see how that would make less CO2 per mile.
I skipped through the vid a couple times, heard something about taking hydrogen and combining, etc. Hydrogen isn't free... but I wonder. There's lots of hydro-carbon chains in a barrel of crude. I wonder if the bunker fuel could be a feedstock? Seems like you'd spend more energy trying to clean it up and strip to hydrogen, but I'm no chemist.
Ohm my, resisting all the puns.
*waves hands*Details...details....
Nothing is impossible (for those who won't be doing the work).
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The last time I said that some poser said, do you want everybody doing your research for you? GeezDetails...details....
Trying not to get my volts up. I've been stepped down before.
Porsche is investing millions into this with a plant located in Chile specifically so that they can try to keep the 911 using a proper gasoline engine as long as possible. It won't be cheaper than normal gasoline but I'm all for it. Electric doesn't work and will never work.
