[HN Gopher] Porsche's e-fuel burns just like the real thing
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       Porsche's e-fuel burns just like the real thing
        
       Author : fortran77
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2023-04-01 20:50 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | xnx wrote:
       | I've never understood synthetic fuel. We've got plenty of
       | petroleum in the ground, but too much carbon in the air. Better
       | to come up with a good sequestration strategy to put some of that
       | carbon back in the ground.
        
         | jaycroft wrote:
         | "Carbon is extracted from the air in the form of CO2 and
         | combined with the hydrogen in a process called synthesis."
         | 
         | It seems like at least re-burning the carbon that's already in
         | the air is better than burning new dug up carbon? This is at
         | least not net atmospheric carbon positive. You can do
         | sequestration too...
        
         | readthenotes1 wrote:
         | trees?
         | 
         | The marketing blurb for this fuel can say: we only kill birds!
         | (Because wind turbines)
        
           | esteth wrote:
           | Turbines kill fewer birds per kWh than a coal plant.
        
         | nukeman wrote:
         | Synthetic fuels are generally cleaner in that they have
         | significantly less sulfur and a decent bit less aromatics.
         | There's a great picture on Wikipedia that illustrates the
         | difference.
        
       | steponlego wrote:
       | Is that the stuff that causes cancer?
        
       | frazar0 wrote:
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20230401205313/https://www.wired...
        
       | eminence32 wrote:
       | Ignoring questions about if this is makes economical or
       | environmental sense, this just seems plain _cool_ -- it appears
       | to be a fairly standalone industrial complex that just needs
       | water as input, and produces fuel plus three useful byproducts.
       | 
       | This seems like something you might build in Surviving Mars, or
       | something.
        
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