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  • Synthetic gasoline for $1.50 gallon

    How long before this guy ends up dead and his research destroyed?

    UK-based Cella Energy has developed a synthetic fuel that could lead to US$1.50 per gallon gasoline. Apart from promising a future transportation fuel with a stable price regardless of oil prices, the fuel is hydrogen based and produces no carbon emissions when burned. The technology is based on…


    UK-based Cella Energy[1] has developed a synthetic fuel that could lead to US$1.50 per gallon gasoline. Apart from promising a future transportation fuel with a stable price regardless of oil prices, the fuel is hydrogen based and produces no carbon emissions when burned. The technology is based on complex hydrides, and has been developed over a four year top secret program at the prestigious Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. Early indications are that the fuel can be used in existing internal combustion engined vehicles without engine modification.

    According to Stephen Voller CEO at Cella Energy, the technology was developed using advanced materials science, taking high energy materials and encapsulating them using a nanostructuring technique called coaxial electrospraying.


    “We have developed new micro-beads that can be used in an existing gasoline or petrol vehicle to replace oil-based fuels,” said Voller. “Early indications are that the micro-beads can be used in existing vehicles without engine modification.”

    “The materials are hydrogen-based, and so when used produce no carbon emissions at the point of use, in a similar way to electric vehicles”, said Voller.

    The technology has been developed over a four-year top secret programme at the prestigious Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, UK.

    The development team is led by Professor Stephen Bennington in collaboration with scientists from University College London and Oxford University.

    Professor Bennington, Chief Scientific Officer at Cella Energy said, “our technology is based on materials called complex hydrides that contain hydrogen. When encapsulated using our unique patented process, they are safer to handle than regular gasoline.”
    References

    1. ^ Cella Energy (www.cellaenergy.com)

    Excerpted from Breakthrough promises $1.50 per gallon synthetic gasoline with no carbon emissions

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    In September, a privately held and highly secretive U.S. biotech company named Joule Unlimited received a patent for “a proprietary organism” – a genetically engineered cyanobacterium that produces liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline. This breakthrough technology, the company says, will deliver renewable supplies of liquid fossil fuel almost anywhere on Earth, in essentially unlimited quantity and at an energy-cost equivalent of $30 (U.S.) a barrel of crude oil. It will deliver, the company says, “fossil fuels on demand.”

    We’re not talking “biofuels” – not, at any rate, in the usual sense of the word. The Joule technology requires no “feedstock,” no corn, no wood, no garbage, no algae. Aside from hungry, gene-altered micro-organisms, it requires only carbon dioxide and sunshine to manufacture crude. And water: whether fresh, brackish or salt. With these “inputs,” it mimics photosynthesis, the process by which green leaves use solar energy to convert carbon dioxide into organic compounds. Indeed, the company describes its manufacture of fossil fuels as “artificial photosynthesis.”

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    • #3
      2011 Death List
      Professor Stephen Bennington
      Charlie Sheen
      Al Davis

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      • #4
        Yeah, that won't last long.

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        • #5
          If its true, it would be great in the short term,but would eventually go up in price radically
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          • #6
            Anything with hydrogen could be turned into fuel with enough effort (and money). Hell, the Fischer-Tropsch process was developed in the 1920s used by the Nazis in WWII. That kind of stuff generally becomes profitable once oil is north of $70... like now.

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            • #7
              It'll disappear just like Charles Nelson Pogue carburetor.

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              • #8
                I still think CNG LNG are good alternatives although this sounds even better.

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                • #9
                  The technology will be bought and shelved.

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                  • #10
                    "I'm having a heart attack! They poisoned me!"

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                    • #11
                      If its proven it really wouldnt be a bad idea. Im all for the concept of utilizing all energy sources in unison. It would alleviate the petroleum supply for the other uses.

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                      • #12
                        Who exactly would be opposed to this? Not anyone in the fossil fuel industry.

                        Ya'll seem to forget that the primary source material for hydrogen production is Natural Gas or Oil. Other methods are not yet nearly as efficient.

                        The best way to create hydrogen is through Steam Reforming using natural gas, which is pretty efficient. However it does produce carbon dioxide. You and I don't give a shit about that but it is one of the primary points of the article.

                        Another issue I have with this is its actual efficiency. How many BTUs do you get out of a gallon of this stuff? Remember, a gallon of Ethanol gets about 25% less mileage than gasoline because it has about that much less BTU. So how much would this stuff cut your gas mileage?

                        However this could be an important development for fuel cell cars IF it solves the problem of hydrogen boiling off from the fuel tank. IMO that and solving hydrogen infrastructure issues (non fossil fuel production, transport, and storage) are the primary things holding us back from a hydrogen economy.

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                        • #13
                          I wonder how small engines and outboards would hold up to it. The fuel right now is killing them all.

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                          • #14
                            sounds like Algae converted to bio-diesel

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by John -- '02 HAWK View Post
                              sounds like Algae converted to bio-diesel
                              Yea, it sounds exactly like it... but not.

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