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German Clean-Tech Company Makes Fuel From Water

Mila Luleva — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:55:22 +0000

First of its kind liquid hydrocarbon fuel, developed by a German company for clean technology, holds the potential to transform the world of renewable energy. The synthetic fuel, which resembles petrol, diesel and kerosene is a product of water and carbon dioxide conversion. To produce the new synthetic fuel, the guys at Dresden’s Sunfire GmbH followed […]

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Graphene Synthetic Fuel Catalyst Developed by University of Illinois at Chicago

Benji Jerew — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 12:58:52 +0000

Synthetic fuels can turn practically any vehicle carbon-neutral, since the vehicle would emit the same carbon dioxide that was used to make the fuel in the first place. Actually, this is exactly the draw of biofuels, except that, with synthetic fuels, you don’t have to wait for the plants to grow. I guess you could […]

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Vulcanol – Synthetic Fuel Made From Carbon Dioxide and Volcano Power

Benji Jerew — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 22:56:41 +0000

Synthetic fuels could serve as viable replacements for common fuels, if only they could be made more economical. Carbon Recycling International (CRI) may have found a way to do just that by combining a number of technologies over a very special part of the earth. Iceland, the land of fire and ice, is an interesting […]

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Synthetic Fuel from Carbon Dioxide by Tweaking “Pyrococcus Furiosus” Bacteria

Benji Jerew — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:33:17 +0000

Biofuels, synthetic fuels, are made from plants that use photosynthesis to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but what if we could remove the middlemanplant? Biofuels are essentially carbon-neutral, because they release the same amount of carbon dioxide that was sequestered by the plants that the fuel is synthesized from. Making synthetic fuel by this […]

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Princeton University Study Claims Synfuels Could Eliminate US Petroleum Needs

Benji Jerew — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:08:01 +0000

One of the goals of some synfuel programs is, not only to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions, but to reduce our dependency on foreign petroleum imports. This is also the main reason that vehicles are becoming more fuel efficient than ever, especially since the 1970s OPEC Oil Embargo, when US consumers and the government realized how vulnerable […]

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