Interesting to Follow

Folks in the UK may already be tuned into this as news from your area doesn't reach us in a timely manner. Although synthetic fuel isn't brand new, this is the first I have read about this kind of carbon footprint reduction. I'll be searching through Google today.

Synthetic Fuel

I have read the evo thing and it supports my assertion that it's not the car or indeed the engine that are the problem, its the fuel they burn. The future is not batteries. The future is hydrogen for the masses and sustainable fuel for the enthusiast be they biofuel like peanut oil for diesel or ethanol for petrol or the new synthetic types. We don't have to give up cars to give up with fossil fuel.

Ineos are about to launch their Grenadier, they are the biggest chemical company in the country, he's teamed up with Hyundai as they are working on using Hydrogen fuel. Ineos apparently make thousands of tonnes of hydrogen, it is a by product of creating chlorine I think, so obviously in his best interest to get into hydrogen powered cars.

I sometimes work for a semi retired scientist, and over 10 years ago we were talking about wind farms and power storage. At the time he was working with a start up who had managed to liquify air by massive compression. As he said, once you can do that it can be tanked and transported, he also pointed out that it wouldn't be a big leap to run an ICE on compressed air, like a back to front compressor. Obviously is easier with liguid nitrogen, but he said if it were to leak in your garage, you would be axphixiated. The liquid air is now in the public domain, read it on BBC news website.

This is it, we have some very bright people working through some very clever ideas to get away from the reliance on fossil energy.

It is all energy. Problem with them all is storage and distribution.
It is not like Oil and gas has an easy way from the oil fields to your car or stove, but for the most other sources there is no obvious or well developed supply chain.
It is hard to compete with the subsidised oil industry.
Supply vessels in the north sea oil and gas industry gets the fuel for free, so there is little or no fuel save efforts..
Meanwhile in Norway where there is alot of green electricity:
www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan...-market-share-norway

One of the ideas floated with the liquified air, was to put the plant at the bottom of wind turbines to 'collect' in used power overnight etc, then use the stored air to run a turbine under heavy use periods.