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I've been super curious about alternatives to the Sabatier reaction. Nice work! Maybe I'd encourage you to think of yourself less as a fuel company and more as

by __sy__ 7y ago

I've been super curious about alternatives to the Sabatier reaction. Nice work! Maybe I'd encourage you to think of yourself less as a fuel company and more as a chemical precursor one. Outside of combustion, there are a ton of other use cases in need of synthetic pathways.

rmcginnis 7y ago
Thanks! We are also going to make carbon negative building materials to remove CO2 that has already been emitted. Really anything now made from petroleum is potentially replaceable with air mined CO2 and renewable electricity. Will start with gasoline.
- monk_e_boy 7y ago
  Automatic factory on Mars?
  - rmcginnis 7y ago
    You could make a lot of stuff from the CO2 in the Martian atmosphere, for sure!
    - codethief 7y ago
      Not a chemist, but as far as I understand the process you're using to process the CO2 also needs water or at least some other source of hydrogen? Where would you get that from on Mars? (Sure, there is water on Mars but not in the atmosphere.)
      - __sy__ 7y ago
        Most likely subsurface ice