Company Says It Can Make Fuel out of Thin Air

[Iamnoone]

Check your calendar: it’s not April 1. A small British company has claimed it can create gasoline out of thin air, and it seems to be for real. According the Independent, the company has produced the first batch of “petrol from air” by employing innovative technology that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Since August, England-based Air Fuel Synthesis has created five liters—or about 1.32 gallons—of gasoline by combining carbon dioxide extracted from air with hydrogen from water to form a basic hydrocarbon — the essential ingredient of gasoline, the Independent reported. The company’s chief executive, Peter Harrison, shared the development at a Friday conference at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London.

“It sounds too good to be true, but it is true,” Tim Fox, head of energy and environment at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, told the Independent. “They are doing it and I’ve been up there myself and seen it. The innovation is that they have made it happen as a process.”

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/23/company-says-it-can-make-fuel-out-of-thin-air/

 

[Iamnoone]

Thoughts on this?

 

[unit321]

Total garbage.
If it were real, this would make it to all the major news outlets. Major news outlets report big stuff like wars, oil shortages, and inventions to small stuff like A-Rod hitting on women during a game. If a company really made gasoline out of water and carbon dioxide, that would make the news.

 

[Brown_Pride]

in breaking news Peter Harrison was found burned to death in his upscale home. While this is being officially ruled a suicide, one does wonder why deleted all his research files then bound, gagged and tortured himself prior to setting himself on fire.

 

[unit321]

in breaking news Peter Harrison was found burned to death in his upscale home. While this is being officially ruled a suicide, one does wonder why deleted all his research files then bound, gagged and tortured himself prior to setting himself on fire.

Uh, one set of research files?
There's more than one repository for something as inane as an MLB's team's player stats. So for something big like this, there would be multiple sets of research files.

This is all a contrived story, a.k.a. B.S.

 

[flipn50]

Here's the source:

Company Says It Can Make Fuel out of Thin Air | TIME.com

Here's the video on it:

Latest News : Petrol from air an update

 

[Outlaw]

if this is true this technology and the inventor will be thrown in the bushes by oil kingpins

 

[Iamnoone]

Here's the source:

Company Says It Can Make Fuel out of Thin Air | TIME.com

Here's the video on it:

Latest News : Petrol from air an update

damn I thought I posted the source link... damn Im retarded

 

[Brown_Pride]

Uh, one set of research files?
There's more than one repository for something as inane as an MLB's team's player stats. So for something big like this, there would be multiple sets of research files.

This is all a contrived story, a.k.a. B.S.

A BP representative will be at your home to discuss your knowledge of these additional files momentarily.

 

[radio rahiem]

the amount of chemicals in the air, this isn't exactly too far fetched

 

[ZEB WALTON]

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[Hawaiian Punch]

It's the same bullshyt with dudes that could make fuel from turkey guts and landfills. What happened with that shyt? I thought thermo depolymerization was supposed to change the world?

I swear man these dudes should be brought up on charges if this shyt don't do what it claims.