Carbon-neutral fuel made from sunlight and air
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a novel technology that produces liquid hydrocarbon fuels exclusively from sunlight and air. For the first time worldwide they demonstrate the entire thermochemical process chain under real field conditions. The new solar mini-refinery is located on the roof of ETH’s Machine Laboratory building in Zurich.
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If anyone is reading: I have two ideas to enhance efficiency further -
1) Put these reactors directly beside coal/gas run power plants and feed the exhaust directly to this system. That way, energy wasted for dehumidifying and CO2 condensation will go down many times.
2) The H2-CO mixture coming out of hot reduced Cerium is going to be pretty hot. Why not put that into a gas turbine and generate further electricity. This will be more effective when large volume of CO2 are H2O are being fed to the system as proposed in (1).
Maybe you guys already has such plan, still just saying, such could be done.
This is so amazing 🤩. Actually I don’t understand their language, but I can still understand that they have made a fuel from inexhaustible resources. Let’s see, how it can change the whole system.
Congratulations ETH Zurich team. Brilliant! Please keep up the hard work
This is amazing! Thank you so much for working towards that goal! Can’t wait to see it improved and applied all over the world 🎉
from 1 dl per day to 10 millions per year. You have a long way, but in science we believe. Good Luck.
Well plant 10 of these big guys and you'll have 1 L/day and 30L/month.
Not enough to drive all day, but should be enough if you go to vacation twice a year.
Combine this tech for fuel vapor motors which only use few litres per 100km. Even simple vaporizer can reduce consumtion of coventional motor 30-80% depending how advanced the sensor system is in motor. Older motors benefit more because there is no computer messing up the parameters. Best would be whole new design for gas vapor system and engines. It also burns 100% so emissions arent need to convert in catalysator. Earth is saved
I do believe the future is on e-fuels! Wish you great success!
Except thats no E-fuel, but an h-fuel.
well, this was mindblowing.
Amazing!!! Technology with high impact
This is fantastic, I wonder if there can be conversions of current solar farms to create syngas in parallel to electricity.
Nice work!
Ok but what we want to know is how many times the entire land area of Australia would be needed to supply all the world's planes.
Cool work :D
What is the conversion efficiency?
Uses sunlight so only energy used.
Solar panels have a conversion efficiency, so your comment does not really help.
@@simonzollner I think it's hard to tell, because the sunlight is here only used to generate the necessary heat for the reactions, so the atoms can reallocate to form new molecules. So the effeciency depends more on the supply and emptying processes of the products, after the chamber reached minimum temperature.
@@simonzollner Perhaps the best is to let them hope. This "autruche" hole is not the worstest. In french, "faire l'autruche" means "forget problems". Physics, thermodynamic rules, and quantitative analysis forbids that.
Perhaps.
Or keep on hunting all form of "escroquerie intellectuelle".
Forgiving my english.
Two percent , from another video from Aldo
what about beer or whisky?
Wow! This is amazing!!
Echt cool zu sehen wie unsere Forschungsgelder dank all der Personen die hart arbeiten in Umweltschonende Produkte umgesetzt werden. Weiter so :)
Excelente trabajo, gran investigación
Wie viel wird denn die full size Anlage kosten? Und ginge sie noch größer oder gibt's da irgendwelche physikalischen Limits?
This is some pretty amazing stuff right here. The catalyst they are using is awesome! Clever idea to use the magnified heat of the sun to heat this system and make it work in tandem
Everything EXCEPT the solar is brilliant. It would be much smarter to use a nuclear source, and then just pump out massive quantities of this fuel. One nuclear reactor could probably output the equivalent of an entire oil field.
@@pentestusa6579 A nuclear reactor that runs at the melting point of steel is an incredibly bad idea.
Welcome to the future.
Sehr faszinierend!
Is this still around or is it vaporware?
Their focus on using it for planes is really good, cars and grid are already in their way of being full electric. It can be use to extract CO2 from the air too! Nice! Haha it is funny seeing the Italian professor speaking german
Very interesting
good job.
how much fuel can this roof top plant make on a good day?
Video says this demonstration project makes 1/10 liter day
Where can i buy one of these thing?
Couldn't you just hook this into a nuclear reactor and make endless amounts of this? Why does it have to be solar?
This + Prius = zero emission driving without the range anxiety, waiting while charging and high cost of EVs, yay!
Prius is a commie car. If we can have essentially unlimited fuel then why aren't we driving fun cars?
@@rhedinrage1601 ahh, I see, you're one of those who think $800 truck payments and $200 in gas bills is okay. Well, good for ya, MUGUH 2020 amirite?
@@rhedinrage1601 Don't hate it because of those who drive it
Very strange accent. Is that the accent the German speakers have in Switzerland? Good luck with your research. I really hope ICE"s won't die 😊
ICE would never die simply because high density fuel is far more useful than batteries. Whether we make a " carbon neutral " fuel or not, ICE will always be king of the road. One thing I don't think they really covered is that we're still at a geologically seriously low period of Co2 so we need to keep burning fossil fuels and gas to make sure the planet is seeded with enough Co2 for plant life and large scale fuel production.
@@rhedinrage1601 I wish u were right I really hate shit dental drill on wheels.
He prob from Italian canton
@@rhedinrage1601 are you not aware ICE cars in many places around the world will be banned by 2030?
@@av8743 Some countries (Mostly Developing COuntries) not banning ICE yet, China and Japan still permit sales of PHEV and Hybrid cars ...
Instead of fuel, can we convert CO2 into oxygen? If yes means how much quantity? Can it be used for converting Mars CO2 flakes into oxygen. This will be helpful for Mars invasion.
würde gerne investieren, leider an der Börse nicht möglich
Und das ist auch gut so. Das ist Grundlagenforschung, die gehört nicht an die Börse.
ohh yes :P
sounds like photosynthesis
There are other soures of co2 than air, probably much easy to produce gasoline and diesel-like fuels.
Mr. Gigi, the problem is, releasing the CO2 into the atmosphere from sources such as oil/tree’s, this leads to much higher CO2 levels in the air. Extracting the CO2 from the air, means the fuel is carbon neutral as the same amount of CO2 is released back into the air than was taken in the first place)
@@Hurplez But putting it next to a source where CO2 is released is a good idea. If you are still burning waste, oil and coal, you might as well recycle it back right away.
@@teslatrooper85 of course, I mean the interesting thing is creating a fuel source that does not emit “stored” CO2 (burning coal, pumped oil) but using CO2 that has been released into the atmosphere. It’s all about preventing new CO2 emissions and also recapturing past carbon emissions.
Warum wird das nirgendwo diskutiert und warum baut Deutschland jetzt für 3 Milliarden überall Stromsäulen? Wo ist der Haken?
Der Preis... Du hast die Anlage gesehen, die einen zehntel Liter Benzin pro Tag produziert. Das ergibt volkswirtschaftlich ohne weitere Forschung wohl noch nicht viel Sinn.
Das ist für Flugzeuge, nicht für Autos.
If cars were breatharian.
A dl a day. In Switzerland. With Switzerland salaries.
A barrel will aprox cost 15.000.000 usd in comparison with 8 usd a barrel of crude oil.
Dream on....
What do you think the first refined dl of gasolin from crude oid did cost? And what makes you think it was cheaper?
German tech
ETH is a cryptocurrency you guys should merge haha