BF2S Forums New process converts CO2 to fuel. The answer to oil problems?

I just hope he doesn't "disappear."  I can see a number of companies interested in giving him an ultimatum to work with them or else....

Scenario:

A new product was released last year touted as a solution to the deepening oil crisis; bio-engineered algae designed to expedite the process of carbon fuel creation has mutated.
The ' Super Yeast ' bio-engineered to dramatically increase the rate of metabolic conversion of plant matter to oil has evolved into a mold generating machine covering all plant growth with thick green streamers of algae which break down into a synthetic type oil substance. Where once stood corn stalks a puddling pool of black oil bubbles.

Spoors of the algae spread airborne. The product design to turn waste product and plant material to fuel as now destroyed the South American rain forest, Canadian wheat fields and all farm land in between and threatens to spread world wide, destroying food crops and rice paddies.

Oil prices plummet to $2.50 per barrel. Mass starvation ensues and we all die.


See my sig.

Last edited by ATG (2008-06-07 11:21:41)

Anyone remember the guy who ran his car on water, this being that water that burned for some reason? I thought the Army was looking into what he had came up with to use in Hummers, what happened to him?

Snake wrote:

Thats pretty interesting. So, in theory then, you fill up your car with petrol, and then all the emissions it produces, gets converted and goes back to into your tank. So, would that mean that you would only have to fill up just 1 single time, for every car?

I thought it said the produce would power your home?  Though I suppose they could work out some way of using it in car engines (all be it different from traditional combustian).  Assuming it was 100% I suppose you would be right.  I doubt that though.

I wouldnt mind high oil prices if the frequency of my visits to the gas station went down.

Martyn

ThaReaper wrote:

Bell wrote:

Snake wrote:

Thats pretty interesting. So, in theory then, you fill up your car with petrol, and then all the emissions it produces, gets converted and goes back to into your tank. So, would that mean that you would only have to fill up just 1 single time, for every car?

I thought it said the produce would power your home?  Though I suppose they could work out some way of using it in car engines (all be it different from traditional combustian).  Assuming it was 100% I suppose you would be right.  I doubt that though.

I wouldnt mind high oil prices if the frequency of my visits to the gas station went down.

Martyn

Did you even read it? It said it could power your car and even your home.

fixed just for u

Kmarion wrote:

Turquoise wrote:

I just hope he doesn't "disappear."  I can see a number of companies interested in giving him an ultimatum to work with them or else....

That was such a good movie...  lol...  Michael Clayton rocked too....

Mugen wrote:

Snake wrote:

Thats pretty interesting. So, in theory then, you fill up your car with petrol, and then all the emissions it produces, gets converted and goes back to into your tank. So, would that mean that you would only have to fill up just 1 single time, for every car?

There's no perpetual motion.
Really don't know how it could power your car and -even- your home. Srsly wtf?

I think its more like a more efficient turbo where the gas not completely burned in combustion is used to cause another rotation or you use less fuel after the first combustion maybe upping fuel economy by 50% or something in that ball park.

I'm just going to sit back and see what the major car companies do about this so called "global warming"

Burwhale the Avenger wrote:

Omega wrote:

I'm just going to sit back and see what the major car companies do about this so called "global warming"

I am not really sure what you are getting at here.

I think what hes saying (correct me if Im wrong), is that there are already alternate fuels. Top Gear ran cars on both human and cow dung, and there was something in the news about 2 years ago that Oxford University came up with, where the car is powered by Hydrogen, and the only by-product was water.

With the oil companies having so much control, even with the amount of oil left in the world getting less and less every year, its hard to see any other type of fuel kick in properly. Oil companies will go bankrupt (piss off a lot of high-execs) and every petrol station in the country/world would have to be converted. Its a HUGE task to do something like that, and whilst its necessary, government dont want to enforce that for all the hassle it would create. Even if they did it, say, 1 county at a time, it means that people travelling from 1 county to another would get caught out at the pumps if they have to refuel.
Not only that, but you would have to have unilateral agreement from all car companies to include the way the new fuel is handled in the car into their engines.
And, lets say that it did go ahead, and was implemented in 2010, that means all new cars both this year, and in 2009, will become redundant. Unless they can be fitted out with new engines to take the new fuel...

At the end of the day, theres no financial incentive for government or the car companies to do this, as, if anything, they lose money unless we all get charged to use this new fuel method. Which would probably cause 'riots'.

Of course, this method in the OP still requires oil, but even that will have to be replaced at somepoint. Oil reserves will dry up at some time in the future, so the above will still apply to the extent of entirely new engines.
Its a huge task that we, as humanity, will have to face at some point. But, its one that governments, despite their "pro-green stances", are afraid of implementing because of the influence and power the oil companies have as well as the shear hassle involved. This would be the biggest change to our lives if it went ahead, but would also be quite subtle at the same time.

SEREVENT wrote:

Snake wrote:

Burwhale the Avenger wrote:

I am not really sure what you are getting at here.

I think what hes saying (correct me if Im wrong), is that there are already alternate fuels. Top Gear ran cars on both human and cow dung, and there was something in the news about 2 years ago that Oxford University came up with, where the car is powered by Hydrogen, and the only by-product was water.

Hydrogen isn't used for a reason. Not the oil companies, its too hard to store safely without it exploding.

But i agree with the oil companies having too much control.

I believe it was Hydrogen anyway, Im quoting a news report from 2 years ago without the actual source as I cant find it!

People really should study thermodynamics before they get too excited about this kind of thing.
Hydrogen
Exhaust gas turned straight into fuel
Make all roads downhill

Dilbert_X wrote:

People really should study thermodynamics before they get too excited about this kind of thing.
Hydrogen

yeah i heard about the huge explosion at the BMW testing facilities, damn 760h!

...