Re: Making petrol from the air


"Craig" <cagerken@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tom Anderson wrote:
Could we use electrical energy to convert air into petrol (aka gasoline)?

What i'm after is a process which allows me to build a plant where CO2,
water and electricity go in one end, and alkanes and oxygen come out the
other. It can be done with biotechnology, but not at a particularly great
rate, i think. Is there a feasible chemical solution here?

The other obvious problem is "how." The best that I know of is
Fischer-Tropsch, for converting CO and hydrogen to hydrocarbons.

Google "CO2 electroreduction".

Eric Lucas


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