TL;DR company claims to have invented a machine that makes gasoline from air. Elizabeth Holmes could not be reached for comment.
Ok, a couple things here. First of all, in physics, as we understand it today, there is no free energy. As I understand it the amount of energy it takes to make the gasoline-from-air cannot be less than the energy you get from the gasoline-from-the-air. In other words, youd get more miles driving the electricity it toook to make the gasoline than you would from the gasoline. But, thats probably an oversimplification.
Also, the more conspiracy minded will now comment about how the .gov will never let these guys bring such an item to market and instead will teach them the meaning of defenestration. And, don’t forget, the 70MPG carburetors that supposedly “Big Oil” has been suppressing since forever.
In one sense, there’s an even bigger question – if you have the technology to create gasoline out of the air, then you have the technology to not need the gasoline in the first place. But, as the article states, many people aren’t willing to give up their gas engines so the next best thing is to make the gas more abundant.
This reminds me of the atmospheric water generators (AWG) that are out there…with enough electricity, you can drop one of these in a desert-environment somewhere and start producing water out of the air. The lesson being that with enough electrical power you can pretty much do anything. (Which was one of the big messages of ‘Lucifers Hammer’ … electricity=civilization.)
This sort of technology is interesting, and certainly thought provoking, but for your average garden-variety survivalist it seems to be of interest mostly for the trickle-down effect of the research and technology, and the societal impact of it working on a large scale.
I suspect this task becomes potentially possible only in highly polluted Asian cities where you only need the right filter…
In any other location, the chemistry doesn’t work out – there isn’t enough carbon in the air to do much of anything.
“there isn’t enough carbon in the air to do much of anything.”
Jonathan, may I suggest that we have all been reliably informed that the atmosphere is absolutely LOUSY with great gobs of carbon. To such an extent that various entities will pay you to sequester carbon under some byzantine scheme involving carbon credits.
So my hat is off to Aircela for their demonstrated ability to sell rank BS to a gullible public. Imagine if they pull off this incredible double grift – sell a useless machine to rubes while also claiming carbon credits. I don’t doubt there is even a third level of grift I’m unaware of, so I shall set a Google alert to keep me abreast of this hopefully entertaining scam.
A gallon of gasoline is about 120-million joules worth of energy.
Good luck!
Sure, but whats the joules worth of energy that it took to make that gallon…thats the real question.
Did you see where the large hadron collider created gold?
What happens if they eventually make a cost effective method like with industrial diamonds or synthetic rubber?
Life is moving so damn fast and technology is increasing so quickly, and when they actually create AI it will only go faster…
Nuclear reactions and reactors have been making gold for 70 years. The trick is to use mercury, not lead. The problem is that the gold is radioactive.
Hey Commanders, my grandfather invented such a “Carb”. It was more of a fuel management system where the unused fuel in the exhaust gas was ‘scavenged’ and returned so that mpg could be maximized. His Ford V8s were getting 40mpg-ish.
Had some ‘trouble’ getting a patent so sold the drawings/plans to Ford. Got a check for $250 and an ‘atta boy.
His initials were REJ and he was a plankowner on CV-6 USS Enterprise. Aircraft Mech for 25+ then DynCorp in Vietnam working on Hueys.
Thats as close as I can get to ‘proof’, but Ive heard that 70mpg carb all my life and wanted to pass along. Keep up the good work, I enjoy reading it.
If Ford has something that would make every car they make do 70+ MPG back in the 1930/40 (or even now) and only their cars could be fitted with it for 15 or 20 years, why would they hold it back, they would sell more cars than they could ever make?
Because of Big Oil…and the Bilderbergs…and Illuminati..and Xenu…and all the other conspiracy stuff. No doubt someone will say “Ford was going to do just that, but the FBI/CIA/OSS/KGB leaned on them and told them that if they did that they would kill the entire Ford family and nationalize the company!”..or something equally absurd.
In sincerity, that is the only solid guess I have. REJ (and look on cv6.org for veracity) told his Sons in the 60’s about ‘planned obsolescence’. Whoever heard of such a thing then…. and who can Deny it now?
Id be more than happy to talk offline Commander.
As for the FBI/CIA/ etc…. that part makes it seem odd to me.
If you’d like to talk more, then you have my email.
And if you’re calling this absurd then I ask you to speak with me.
YOU brought this up. I substantiated what you are (apparently) calling nonsense.
FYI…. modern diesels use damn near this SAME tech…. called EGR i believe.
Talk to me offline. I dont appreciate you acting like this is BullShit.
I wrote 2 replies, and the first did not go through.
My name is Micah Jones.
(813) 428-2929.
Its your site. Say what you like…. bilderbergs, cia, fuck off dude.
My grandfather told his sons about ‘Planned Obsolescence’ in 1970s and WHO would have heard of that term….. and yet NOW… who could DENY its existence.
cv6.org for provenance. pics available of him in pleiku working for DynCorp. Holder of 1 patent, and a Purple Heart citation Signed by Nimitz. Im 4th gen Combat brother. Show some respect before you dismiss.
Call, Text, or Email PUNK. At this point I have Zero Respect for your Disrespectful Ass.
YOU decided to TALK this TRASH.. Well, Lets FUCKING GO PUNK.
You have my phone number And my email.
Lets air this out. You can apologize HERE or You can contact me Personally (I prefer to Speak on the Phone at this point).
You look like shit already, so Man Up ‘Commander’ of Jack Shit.
There’s your options. AND I’ll be GodDamned If I ever try to ‘Inform’ another Moron/Coward blogger again.
Your move. You aint made one yet, and you’ve had All Day Punk. coward. Bilderburg, CIA, ‘kill the Ford fam damily’ etc….. RUN YOUR MOUTH PUNK. You Talked shit to the WRONG GRUNT.
Quite some time ago when all this surfaced there were ford executives on the BoD of big oil companies
In 1979 while I was Cash Manager for the State of New Mexico we hired Arthur Young out nod Dallas to conduct a cash management study
The lead CPA consultant from Dallas Mr Graydon May spoke of a brand new Chevrolet pickup truck he ordered and took delivery of that after a few months he realized it was getting 20+mpg
Shortly later Chevy Detroit called him and said he had to return the truck to the dealer as it was an experimental unit not for sale and he should go back to the dealer and pick out any car on the lot
True story!
George, thank you for this example….
And PLEASE, George, do not take exception to me USING thiis as an EXAMPLE to ‘Commander Zero’.
What say YOU, ‘commanderofJackShit’??
Again….. ‘bilderburgs, cia, illluminati’…. call, text, or email me Dick. FAFO.
(813) 428-2929 Call me ASAP ‘commander’ of Jack Shit
Youre getting awfully bent out of shape simply because I think the conspiracy theories about ‘them’ suppressing super-mileage technology are just that..conspiracy theories.
But, if you want to, feel free to post some links to some source data supporting the existence of such things.
But, dude, ya gotta dial back the hate a little bit. This is hardly something to get this worked up over.
“Link”? “Source?” Should have seen that coming.
Give me a Link, Give me a Source for Planned Obsolescence…..
Now tell me it DOES NOT exist.
Waste of time. None so blind as them who won’t see etc.
Call, Text, Email coward.
My toaster-sized machine makes enough electricity that I run everything on it, including itself. Just plug it in to itself and sway we go.
Just plug a power strip into itself, & you’ll have electricity forever!
I’d forget to turn it on.
Another WONDER machine for the masses. Wake me up when they have a model the makes Jack Daniels from the air:)
Odd how this popped up on my YouTube just now
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Bka8bNfAxUQ
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Micah Jones
I’m sure we can find a clip from the Simpsons if that will make you happy!
Back in ’79-81ish I was renting a Datsun 510 hatchback and running from Little Creek VA to Tampa FL once a month. I constantly checked the mpg on that car and on one run South I saw 52mpg. Usually I would get 35+mpg in city traffic. That was with a 4cylinder engine and a 5 speed stick.
EMAIL SENT TO YOUR ‘Contact’ Link on your homepage.
Respond, Clown. YOU chose to call my grandfather, father, and uncles’ work “absurd conspiracies”? What EXACTLY is Your ‘Expertise’?
Let me offer my credentials once again, for the other 5 readers:
-maternal ggf ambulance corps ww1. sent to Roswell NM Sanitarium to ‘clear his lungs’ fromMustard Gas (argonne forrest. Croix De Guerre citation).
-Maternal Gf Born roswell, nm. father sent home to die in KY as lungs were too destroyed by mustard gas. GF served in submarines (1939) WW2-1962. USS Charr vs IJN ISUZU…. Chief of the boat on Several. One of the first Frogmen. **** HERE YOU GO COMMANDER JACKASS…. TURNED CIA DOWN after they called him up, train ticket to DC, False Identity, ‘take this fishing boat down to cuba’ etc. PICS TO PROVE ALL CMDR JACKASS
-Paternal GF, Plankowner CV-6. Initials REJ,AMM1c. look it up CV6.org. Purple Heart Signed by Nimitz for being knocked unconscious during Battle of Santa Cruz Oct 26, 1943. Pics to prove. 25+ years in Naval Aviation Mechanics…. retired…. Worked for DynCorp in Viet Nam on the Hueys (I have his DynCorp patch…. “Be a tiger Viet Nam”
This is the man with the V8 getting 40mpg that our Doofus of a blog’host’ claims is an absurd conspiracy. THIS is the Man… he has chosen to disparage with Utter Rot and Disrespect.
Oh yeah… my father? USMC, 2x Nam 1968-1980 until the Regan RIFs.
ME? fuck…. not even CLOSE to the MEN i come from. SSG, Army, as 11B 1x Iraq, 2x Intel deployments as 35M…../
4 gens (AT LEAST) combat in svc to America……. but
this jackass blogger wants to talk absolute garbage withOUT addressing his SHIT COMMENTS. YOU disrespected the WRONG GRUNT CMDR.
Phone Number, Email….PROVIDED with EVERY Comment.
(813) 428-2929.
I would rather have phone call apology, but feel free to UNFUCK your Shit Talking publicly.
There was a thing in a sci-fi book I read called an “air-miner”. These were to be sent to Mars years before the first human mission. They were automated plants that combined hydrogen (sent with the air miner) in a complex chemical reactor with Martian atmosphere to make fuel (methane) and oxygen for the return trip. The device alluded to above uses water, (hydrogen + 2 Oxygen), air (78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen and trace amounts of other gases, including CO2, .04%) and electricity to produce some sort of hydrocarbon fuel, they say “gasoline”. It might be possible to do something like that, but I cannot see it being very efficient.