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The article by Jimmy Mengel on March 31st 2020 from Energy & Capital (Practical Investment Analysis in the New Energy Economy) was spelling all doom and gloom for Tesla and electric cars in general by declaring " Electric cars are about to become a thing of the past... Which might sound crazy considering that they're relatively new" and considering that the industry as a whole has yet to reach critical mass and become an affordable option most the motoring masses, not just the more affluent.
It would seem that there has been a break throught in recent times in the efficient production of synthetic gases which have been given a label of "Blue Gas" .
Some of the interesting points about Blue Gas are that it is:
Note that the last two points are still weaknesses yet to be fully overcme by electric vehicle.
Read the full article : https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#inbox/FMfcgxwHMZPjDgVVcsxjLHkJjpGCJPlV
So where does the name Blue Gas come from? According to the article in the October 2019 edition of Power Technolgy by Umar Ali which was titled "Out of the blue: making fuel from air and sunlight"
The article descrobes what's called a "Direct Air Capture unit" which first extracts CO2 and water from ambient air, which is then feb into a solar reactor.
The solar plant developed by ETH Zurich combines three thermochemical processes to create liquid fuels from sunlight and air; direct air capture, solar redox and gas-to-liquid conversion.
A Direct Air Capture unit first extracts CO₂ and water from ambient air, which is then fed into a solar reactor which generates heat of around 1,500°C through the concentration of solar radiation.
A ceramic structure made of cerium oxide inside the reactor then enables a reaction that splits the water and CO₂ into a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide known as synthesis gas (syngas). This gas can then be processed into liquid hydrocarbon fuels through the use of a Gas-to-Liquid unit.
“Using concentrated solar radiation, a high-temperature solar reactor splits CO₂ and H2O extracted directly from air and produces syngas – a specific mixture of H2 and CO – which is finally processed into liquid hydrocarbons such as methanol or kerosene,” Steinfeld explains.
I always thought that hydrogen was the ultimate fuel but did not realise that this technolgy had come so far. Its extremely exciting and and has huge otential where there is an abundance of solar energy. Watch this space .
