Comment on New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoYes it is. And nowhere is stayed how efficient it is (only their “target” which is worth less than toilet paper because it isn’t true).
tyler@programming.dev 1 week ago
The efficiency doesn’t matter (to a point of manufacturing solar cells, or wind turbines, or whatever your equipment is for your renewable energy source). If all of the gasoline is generated from the air using renewable energy, it could take 100x the energy and still be completely carbon neutral. Carbon neutrality is based on the amount of excess carbon added to the air. If no carbon is added then by definition it’s carbon neutral.
Porsche already has a factory in Chile that is doing this exact same thing at a much larger scale.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
This is just wrong, except if you live in some theory reality. It’s like saying if a car can go a hundred miles in a hundred years it’ll get there.
There’s a reason why people don’t build small dinky toys like this and efficiency is why, anong other things like that pesky “cost”.
tyler@programming.dev 1 week ago
Please do explain how it’s wrong. Go on, I’ll wait.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
The cost of that thingy outweights the benefits. It misses out economy of scale that you get in big plants. Even with “free” electricity, It’s probably making both more expensive gas and is worse for the climate when you throw it away after it breaks down for the twelfth time in a year and you wonder why it cost so much initially.
But you think it’s kind of neat I guess.