Converting CO2 to fuel: global warming solved?

James May talks to the people who try to convert the greenhouse gas CO2 to synthetic fuel.

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Science & Technology

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• global
• warming
• co2
• fuel
• carbon
• greenhouse
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• synthetic
• convert
• environment

[zaqwert777]

Worst nightmare of the ants. Beware ants we are devising better ways of getting you.

[tzeimet]

3-5 gallons is enoguh for a average motorist

[mollytherealdeal]

Using air, water, and sunlight to create an artificial oil may be useful decades in the future, but it is still a laboratory project. Also, thorium reactors are still also a laboratory project.

[bogusnachos]

The requirements are Air, water AND energy. The key is energy. Oil and the fuels we make are just various arrangements of hydrogen and carbon. We would need thousands of square miles of these mirrors to put a dent in our gasoline usage. We need nuclear power for this processes, preferable\y thorium molten salt reactors.

[1BustedMyth]

@Jordan454545, No!, look outside, I already did! ;)

[1BustedMyth]

@Georgeqaws, Yes they said that about the aeroplane, going to the Moon and sailing around the world.

You can run a Diesel on almost any oil, including Sunflower, Canola, lard, both new or used.

You can buy an electric car, make your own power for it.

There are infact many ways to have transport and be outside the market.

[Jordan454545]

@1BustedMyth You want to steal my car?

[Georgeqaws]

this will never happen as we will always have to pay for our fuel because fuel will always be a market

[1BustedMyth]

@Jordan454545, I actually had your car in mind!

[Jordan454545]

@1BustedMyth That's "steel". It's something different entirely.

[Ubiitsa91]

He said Rotherham :D YAY ROTHERHAM!