Making fuel out of thin air

[WFO Speedracer]

Yep and it's not just a prototype, they are building them now.

Refrigerator-sized machine makes gasoline out of thin air

The Aircela acts like a mini direct air capture facility, sucking up carbon dioxide and then synthesizing it into real, usable gasoline for cars.

www.popsci.com

 

[Quinc]

Interesting. Wonder what octane the fuel is.

 

[Storbeck]

"...and renewable energy." It uses electricity. Possibly a new method but not a new concept and pretty useless. You can already power a car with electricity using a battery.

 

[WFO Speedracer]

Well the long and short of it is this law of physics below and we are bound by it , so naysay if you like , to me making fuel out of air and waste plastic are two wonderful thing that I never thought I would see in my lifetime, any form of fuel distillation involves the use of electricity and probably natural gas to some extent , now if you have better ideas I am all ears.

Law of conservation of energy
The statement "energy can neither be created nor destroyed" refers to the law of conservation of energy, which is a fundamental principle in physics. This law states that energy can only change from one form to another, such as from potential energy to kinetic energy, but the total amount of energy in an isolated system remains constant. For example, solar panels do not create energy; they convert sunlight into electrical energy. This principle is encapsulated in the first law of thermodynamics, which emphasizes that energy transformations are the only changes that occur.
Wikipedia
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[James crouch]

That's interesting.