– Why can’t we just ‘produce’ gasoline, like synthetically?
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Remember that fuels are just stored energy. It must have been put in there first. In the case of petrol, organic matter from plants and such have produced burnable matter through photosynthesis. Essentially it’s stored solar power (that sounds cleaner and more efficient than it is lol.. but that is the principle).
More specifically: Endothermic chemical reactions are reactions that require energy to turn A into B. Photosynthesis is endothermic. It turns CO2 and water into organic matter with the help of solar energy. Turning B back into A is always exothermic: it releases energy when that reaction takes place. That’s what fuel does when ignited.
Remember that fuels are just stored energy. It must have been put in there first. In the case of petrol, organic matter from plants and such have produced burnable matter through photosynthesis. Essentially it’s stored solar power (that sounds cleaner and more efficient than it is lol.. but that is the principle).
More specifically: Endothermic chemical reactions are reactions that require energy to turn A into B. Photosynthesis is endothermic. It turns CO2 and water into organic matter with the help of solar energy. Turning B back into A is always exothermic: it releases energy when that reaction takes place. That’s what fuel does when ignited.
It can be made by engineered algae in the desert, the trouble is the costs are still not competitive with fossil sources given the quantities consumed daily.
It can be made by engineered algae in the desert, the trouble is the costs are still not competitive with fossil sources given the quantities consumed daily.
It can be made by engineered algae in the desert, the trouble is the costs are still not competitive with fossil sources given the quantities consumed daily.
You can, it just costs more, so there’s nobody who’s going to do it.
You can make petroleum from plastic bottles if you want, but its more expensive on a large scale than the current methods, so why bother if you’re not going to make as much profit?
These are companies and people who are all too happy to destroy the planet just so they can have more money than they know about, let alone being more than they know what to do with. If you give them a perfectly clean, green, 0 polution system that makes them $1000 less a day, they’ll choose to burn the planet.
You can, it just costs more, so there’s nobody who’s going to do it.
You can make petroleum from plastic bottles if you want, but its more expensive on a large scale than the current methods, so why bother if you’re not going to make as much profit?
These are companies and people who are all too happy to destroy the planet just so they can have more money than they know about, let alone being more than they know what to do with. If you give them a perfectly clean, green, 0 polution system that makes them $1000 less a day, they’ll choose to burn the planet.
You can, it just costs more, so there’s nobody who’s going to do it.
You can make petroleum from plastic bottles if you want, but its more expensive on a large scale than the current methods, so why bother if you’re not going to make as much profit?
These are companies and people who are all too happy to destroy the planet just so they can have more money than they know about, let alone being more than they know what to do with. If you give them a perfectly clean, green, 0 polution system that makes them $1000 less a day, they’ll choose to burn the planet.
Synthetic gas has to be synthesized from something, and that takes more energy than you will get out of it. Oil is sitting in the ground already crammed full of energy, and the energy cost of extracting oil from the ground and then separating out gasoline from that, is small compared to the energy it then provides that you can then use to power machines.
Synthetic gas has to be synthesized from something, and that takes more energy than you will get out of it. Oil is sitting in the ground already crammed full of energy, and the energy cost of extracting oil from the ground and then separating out gasoline from that, is small compared to the energy it then provides that you can then use to power machines.
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