Friday, January 28, 2011

Breakthrough promises $1.50 per gallon synthetic gasoline with no carbon emissions

Great news! Corporate lawmakers will have to work overtime to kill this one.. But they will try. Excerpts:

UK-based Cella Energy has developed a synthetic fuel that could lead to US$1.50 per gallon gasoline. Apart from promising a future transportation fuel with a stable price regardless of oil prices, the fuel is hydrogen based and produces no carbon emissions when burned. The technology is based on complex hydrides, and has been developed over a four year top secret program at the prestigious Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. Early indications are that the fuel can be used in existing internal combustion engined vehicles without engine modification.

According to Stephen Voller CEO at Cella Energy, the technology was developed using advanced materials science, taking high energy materials and encapsulating them using a nanostructuring technique called coaxial electrospraying.
And:
Professor Bennington, Chief Scientific Officer at Cella Energy said, our technology is based on materials called complex hydrides that contain hydrogen. When encapsulated using our unique patented process, they are safer to handle than regular gasoline.”

No carbon emissions, stable fuel prices, a worldwide economic/ political alteration of power, influence and dependence, and you don't have to modify your car! All possible from Science! Thank you, Science! Does this prove you don't really hate America?

Even with all the instability and major unknowns in our collective, immediate futures, advancements like this prove how exciting this time is in relation to what could be: Provided we don't kill ourselves first.

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