CO2 To Fuel, Closing the "Carbon Loop"

leprasmurf writes "Inhabitat has posted an article detailing a recent announcement of a process to turn CO2 into fuel. The process, which used to be considered too energy inefficient, uses a multi-step, low pressure, and low temperature biocatalyst to break the CO2 into 'basic hydrocarbon building blocks.'"

Comments

Re:Vaporware alert

[Anonymous Coward]

Just imagine if they could turn stink into a fuel.

They could pack all of the USA's H-1B applicants into a room and pipe the air into a power plant. Everybody would win: the USA would have a cheap and renewable source of energy and the H-1B applicants would actually be worth their weight in stink.

Re:New Process?

[jafiwam]

That would be a "Palin".

TANSTAAFL

[Hognoxious]

You can't use a catalyst to add energy to a reaction

Yes they do, this guy says so!

The trick is to get the right catalyst. 3 parts unicorn feathers to 1 part pixie dust should be fine.

Re:TANSTAAFL

[Hognoxious]

What you wrote before was:

Actually they do change the overall energy balance of a reaction

Also:

It might not change the over all energy balance but the net effect is that less input energy is less

So less is less. At least you got that bit right. And you contradicted what you said before, but I suppose a stopped clock is right twice a day.
And then we have:

You see, you can have reaction X which needs Y amounts of energy in a specific form in order to get Z product. Introduce Catalyst A, B, or C, and Y becomes lower for the same value as Z.

Ah, so they do make energy out of thin air.

I believe I ended that discussion with links to several authoritative site describing the exact same things I was

Believe what you want. Any site that says the same as you (which it probably doesn't, given your comprehension skills) isn't authoritative.

yet you have the gull

Well that's an interesting tern of phrase.

Why don't you go troll somewhere else buddy.

Yeah, send me a postcard from Stockholm.