And it would cost half-price... if only. Anyhoo, read and weep.
QuoteIf Siluria really can make cheap gasoline from natural gas it will have achieved something that has eluded the world's top chemists and oil and gas companies for decades. Indeed, finding an inexpensive and direct way to upgrade natural gas into more valuable and useful chemicals and fuels could finally mean a cheap replacement for petroleum.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/52 ... t=20140115 (http://www.technologyreview.com/news/523146/chasing-the-dream-of-half-price-gasoline-from-natural-gas/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140115)
A. Doesn't sound particularly encouraging since it is still a dirty energy that requires dirty energy to extract.
B.
QuoteBecause of the nature of its throw-everything-at-the-wall approach, it doesn't know precisely how its new catalyst works. All it knows is that the process appears to work.
That always works out... the good ol', "I have no idea what I'm doing technique"..
Interesting non-the-less though. Would make a decent stopping point between dirty and clean energy, so long as we don't start relying on it too much because it's cheap.
Quote from: "Shiranu"the good ol', "I have no idea what I'm doing technique"..
why do I envision a giant Rube Goldberg device?