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Originally Posted by Kyuu
Happy of the development of this technology. But, the news of this angers me for only one reason:
Alas, you have an oil/gas industry not interested in such things. Moving forward, I just hope the general fossil fuel industry looks more into this - and develop it further.
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Well, this might not be as great as it sounds. The part that really contains the energy in the fuel is the hydrogen. You could look at it differently: They turn waste into "unclean" fuel using "clean" fuel (hydrogen).
The waste is used to make the hydrogen more compatiblle with internal combustion engines. However, even the waste has to be rather pure (highly concentrated COx) to make this economical. So you cannot simply extract the COx from the atmosphere. That means, its hard to "reuse" this fuel.
Pure hydrogen does not set free large amounts of COx when burned... and after recombination/reaction with oxygen it is pure water. Pure water can be converted into hydrogen again (there is no COx in an open loop - in contrast to methanol).