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Some CO2 hydrogenation processes can produce liquid fuels which is kind of like recycling gasoline, but this is much more complicated than recycling batteries.
by nbanks 9y ago
Some CO2 hydrogenation processes can produce liquid fuels which is kind of like recycling gasoline, but this is much more complicated than recycling batteries. It may still prove useful for fueling rockets or aircraft in a CO2 neutral way.
- dreamcompiler 9y agoUnderstood. My former employer was researching this. But taking the separated atoms of gasoline and rebuilding hydrocarbon molecules from them is -- as you say -- not quite the same thing as recycling. And it requires very large energy inputs. It only really makes sense for aircraft fuel, since large or high-performance aircraft cannot (yet) be powered by batteries.