Those horrible pollution belching and spewing basically useless electric toy cars will be stacked up in the junk yards.



Dangerous unsafe pollution belching Tesla S will spew choking pollution no more.




Could cars and air conditioners harvest fuel from thin air?
Nadine Cranenburgh by Nadine Cranenburgh   May 14, 2019  in Energy  3 min read


harvesting carbon from the air with air conditioners

Researchers and startups are working out how petrol-fuelled vehicles and air conditioners can suck carbon dioxide out of the air to produce fuel.

Last year, petrol-fuelled transport emitted 102 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in Australia, prompting calls for more electric- or hydrogen-powered alternatives.



McGinnis drives a VW Golf, which he eventually hopes to fuel with his air-sourced petrol.

“I used to drive a Tesla Roadster, but now I’m making gasoline cool again,” he told Bloomberg.

Can we fuel cars with thin air?
McGinnis is not lacking in creativity and lateral thinking. While studying for a Bachelor of Arts in theatre, he invented an ammonia-carbon dioxide forward osmosis desalination process. This led to a PhD in environmental engineering and the establishment of his first startup, Oasys Water.

His second startup, Mattershift, used carbon nanotubes to separate chemicals into their molecular components. Because the nanotubes allowed carbon to be separated in liquid form, McGinnis’ method undercut the cost of other separation technologies.

McGinnis’ six-foot tall carbon-to-fuel machine, which will use carbon nanotubes to perform its magic, was displayed at venture capital investor Y Combinator’s demo-day in March. The inventor told Bloomberg that it had not yet achieved the task of producing petrol from atmospheric carbon, as it had only been completed in the days before this unveiling.

But McGinnis’ machine impressed Y Combinator enough to attract seed funding as part of a push to remove carbon from the air and convert it to other products.

“[These projects] might seem like moonshots now, but our goal is to try to come up with technically feasible solutions at realistic costs,” said Y Combinator CEO Sam Altman in a blog post.

Carbon neutral cooling
Researchers at Canada’s University of Toronto are also looking at how to produce fuel from atmospheric carbon and allow us to keep cool in rising temperatures without adding to the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing the issue.

In a paper recently published in Nature Communications, Professors Roland Dittmeyer and Geoffrey Ozin propose that air conditioning units could be retrofitted with devices that convert carbon dioxide from the air into synthetic fuel.

The oil produced could then be stored in private ‘oil wells’ to be used by the owner, and any excess sold to a new ‘renewable oil grid’.

“If our vision of fuel-generating air conditioning systems were to be applied at a global scale, it could enable the production and sale of synthetic fuels through an equitable distributed social scheme similar to the generation of renewable electricity from household solar panels,” Ozin said in a statement.

Carbon capture technologies won’t remove the need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, but removing carbon from the atmosphere has been flagged by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as having “considerable” potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce global warming.

While McGinnis and Ozin are in the early stages of developing their carbon-busting ideas, their innovative spirit could be a step in the right direction.

https://www.createdigital.org.au/cars-air-conditioners-harvest-fuel-thin-air/

Oh BH don't tell me you are NOT a Tesla Fan Boy and believe Teslas are the answer to everything ?


But the Tesla Fan Boys and Girls need to realize Teslas can crash and maim and kill.


Wa this Tesla SUV trying to flap its wings and fly over the object it crashed into ? A special feature of the autopilot ?

But what I'm trying to poiint out is that for once you've posted an interesting and scientifically relevant artidle, which if it is feasible would be fantastic for Australia given our use of air cons. There is zero need to chuck in a Tesla reference.

socko is good at sucking carbon out of the air LOL

Great info

and I didn't mind the Tesla references at all

be nice if this forum was a bit more enthusiastic about the Aussie made EVs which are about to begin production in Adelaide, reaching 15,000 units per year in a few years

I posted it in here twice but not much interest despite the fact it would provide an Aussie made product and provide employment

Great stuff !

That incredibly dumb jealous wretch Tweedledumb just cannot help following her HERO around like a lost puppy.

But ignoring this nauseating reject from the human race and back to something interesting.

Even Bill Gates has opened the gate to this sucking energy from the ether.


Bill Gates is backing a plan to turn CO2 into fuel
Sophie Hardach 05 Feb 2018


Smoke billows from the chimneys of a wood products factory near the city of Burgos, northern Spain  December 9, 2009.
'Air to fuels' technology promises to clean up the atmosphere and provide clean fuel. Image: REUTERS/Felix Ordonez

Could the future of clean energy be to turn air into petrol? It may sound too good to be true, but Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his partners are experimenting with a technology that could potentially help stop global warming as well as provide clean fuel. At their facility in Squamish, western Canada, engineers have already succeeded in extracting CO2 from the air and using it to produce a mix of petrol and diesel. They hope to eventually replicate the process on an industrial scale, the Guardian reports.

Carbon Engineering, a company set up by Gates, physicist David Keith and oil sands magnate Norman Murray Edwards, and its partner, Canadian energy company Greyrock, announced last December that they had made a vital breakthrough. Carbon Engineering had succeeded in using captured CO2 to synthesize a mix of petrol and diesel.

The individual technologies, such as carbon capture and fuel synthesis, are not new. But combined, scaled up and powered by solar energy, they could clean up the planet while offering a new source of carbon-neutral fuel that uses less land and water than biofuels. Carbon Engineering estimates that once scaled up, the technology could produce fuels for less than $1 per liter.


Image: Carbon Engineering

Their process, known as “air to fuels” (or A2F) consists of three main steps.
-First, CO2 is captured from the air and purified. The facility in Squamish already removes one tonne of CO2 per day from the atmosphere, but previously, this was simply released back into the air as the rest of the process was not developed enough.
-Next, clean electricity, such as solar power, is used to split hydrogen from water.
-In the final step, the CO2 and hydrogen are synthesised into fuel, such as diesel and jet fuel. Fuels produced this way are also cleaner burning than fossil fuels, according to Carbon Engineering.

“A2F is a potentially game-changing technology,” it says on its website. It “offers an alternative to biofuels and a complement to electric vehicles in the effort to displace fossil fuels from transportation”. While electric vehicles are more suited to shorter distances, long-haul transport, ships and airplanes still need the high-energy density of liquid fuels, according to the company.

However, critics argue that the world’s main priority should not be to capture CO2, but to emit less of it in the first place.

In the journal Science, Professor Kevin Anderson, deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and Glen Peters, research director at the Centre for International Climate Research (Cicero) in Norway, argue that the technologies to remove carbon may not work at scale.

Anderson warns that governments are assuming that these technologies will clean up the atmosphere in the future, according to the Guardian. This gives them less of an incentive to cut emissions now. Anderson points out that it is also a dangerously optimistic assumption given how new and unproven these technologies are on a large scale.

“They are not an insurance policy; they are a high-risk gamble with tomorrow’s generations, particularly those living in poor and climatically vulnerable communities, set to pay the price if our high-stakes bet fails to deliver as promised,” Anderson says. If the technologies are not as successful as promised, “our own children will be forced to endure the consequences of rapidly rising temperatures and a highly unstable climate.”

Bill Gates has argued that governments and companies need to invest in a wide range of cutting-edge energy technologies, from solar fuels to more efficient grids, even though it may take many years for them to work at scale.

“Breakthroughs in energy technologies could reduce air pollution, help people escape poverty, and avoid the worst effects of climate change,” he said in an opinion piece on clean energy last year. “But here’s the tricky part: we don’t yet know which ones will succeed. So we need to explore lots of ideas with investments from both the government and the private sector.”

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/bill-gates-to-strip-c02-from-air-for-clea...