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Oct 29, 2012

ALTERNATIVE FUELS * UK

* Fuel created with water and air


Durham,EN,UK -Green Wave, by Natalia Villaveces -25 October 2012: -- It's no secret that gas prices go up every day, and that the impact of fuel left at the ecological footprint irreversible. Therefore, in the world, scientists are trying alternatives. In recent years there have been great discoveries, but research conducted by scientists in the UK based Air Fuel Synthesis (AFS) are quite surprising, since fuel is created with water and air... To achieve this green gasoline, scientists begin by extracting dioxide from the atmosphere and hydrogen from water. These gases are combined in a reactor and then with the aid of the catalyst, the hydrocarbon is converted into methanol, which is then used as fuel, known as MOBIL... This amazing technique was developed in two years and cost about 1.6 million pounds for the first 1.32 gallons of synthetic gasoline. However, Peter Harrison, CEO of Air Fuel Synthesis, ensures that it will not be difficult to achieve mass production, and to produce materials that are accessible and are found in abundance on our planet...  


* UK - Air + water = gasoline? Not quite...

Durham,EN,UK -Gizmag, Brian Dodson -October 30, 2012: -- Fuel Synthesis, Ltd. (AFS), a small company in the northern English county of Durham, has recently made headlines for a chemical process that claims to synthesize gasoline from air and water. In essence, AFS is using energy to unburn fuel so that it can be burned as fuel again – a great deal of energy. Sixty kWh of electric energy are used up to store 9 kWh of that energy in a liter of gasoline. When you take into consideration that gasoline vehicles are about 15 percent efficient, a car fueled with synthetic gasoline would use roughly 35 times more energy on a given trip than would an electric vehicle. Not, it would seem, a prescription for a commercially valuable green product... To synthesize sufficient gasoline to supply the world's present consumption would require about half of all energy currently being used by civilization in any form – heating, manufacturing, lighting, transportation, and so on. At present, it's estimated that gasoline consumption represents about 6.5 percent of total world energy consumption. Everything considered, it is hard to imagine any situation in which synthetic gasoline can compete with electric power for transportation. To be sure, there are other needs for portable power in which the large energy density of gasoline may be beneficial, but the net sum of these probably still points to what at best will be a minor niche market for synthetic fuels...

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