Anyone making fuel @home?

[Logic]

Making Methanol From Dry Distillation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGKlpicqldE

[freebeard]

A Methanol Solar Cell anyone?

In general, I think that structured metamaterials are the solution to metered and monetized energy. A penny is only 2.5% Copper, but if they retire all of them that's a lot.

In another thread, JSH said:

didn't mention it above but another reason the eFuels aren't going anywhere for normal road transportation is that they have the same local emission problems as fossil fuels. NOx, PM, CO, HC are the same. Reducing GHG is generally talked about more when people talk about the need to move to renewables but just as important is reducing smog and pollution related disease in urban areas all around the world.

So I will pin my hopes on the Thunderstorm Generator.

[redpoint5]

The Macleay Country Store hasn't had penny candy in quite some time, and that's probably the canary in the coal mine for that denomination. I spent hundreds of pennies at Kermit's store over the years.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries...ry?id=12811093

[freebeard]

It will be interesting to see what happens with the $0.99 pricing phenomenon.

[Isaac Zachary]

I was always fascinated with the idea of making my own fuel, preferably via portable solar on an EV. But I give up.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

It will be interesting to see what happens with the $0.99 pricing phenomenon.

We're still trying to figure out how to pay petrol stations a tenth of a penny.

[Logic]

Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary

I was always fascinated with the idea of making my own fuel, preferably via portable solar on an EV. But I give up.

Yes a solar panel charging a battery is a science fiction fantasy!

But do NB that the it looks like E-fuels is in fact the better Eco option:
https://ecomodder.com/forum/showthre...h-40672-6.html

It's early days for this new tech, but the numbers are VERY impressive!
"...a remarkable 99% selectivity towards methanol production..." vs methane.
So it's worth keeping an eye on this line of research for @home fuel manufacture

I NB that methane is better (cleaner, faster burning) when you can use it immediately.
And from the paper it looks like that catalyst is the easier one of the 2 to make.
Also there's no shortage of CO2 from the exhaust when an engine is running.

The Water-gas Shift Reaction: CO + H2O ⇌ CO2 + H2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%...shift_reaction
is as easy as a condenser (radiator) and shallow bubbler in the exhaust, if not terribly efficient..?

In-case you've stopped reading 'that nut-head's BS'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm0Yz75d73M&t=292s

That may add weight but would double as a muffler, offsetting some of it, leaving rust/erosion as the last challenge.

Last thought: If you can use the heat @Home say; the efficiency of an engine goes up to 90%.
What's gas cost you vs electricity? Pick one; it's free here...

[Piotrsko]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

We're still trying to figure out how to pay petrol stations a tenth of a penny.

Buy more or less using a metered pump with variable pricing like currently used? You have been buying fuel at XX 9/10 dollars per volume for years, HOWEVER, I Havent paid cash without pre authorization in the last 20 years. Pump shuts off by itself typically on an even dollar number. Haven't tried to buy just a quarters worth or just exactly 1gallon, all my fuel cans are at least 2 1/2. Either way you'd be looking at about a partial gram of fuel. I find more fuel in the nozzle after someone overfills their tank

Credit card/ fuel card wouldn't care using same scenario,.


Remember way back in the '70s in ST Louis they rounded everything to the nickle during a penny crisis. Sometimes you made out, but in the long run it averaged out the same and gas was pocket change compared to today. Iirc it was something like $50 to cross country LA to Chanute afb Illinois.

[Logic]

Originally Posted by freebeard

In general, I think that structured metamaterials are the solution to metered and monetized energy. A penny is only 2.5% Copper, but if they retire all of them that's a lot.

In another thread, JSH said:

So I will pin my hopes on the Thunderstorm Generator.

E-fuels that take those nasty things OUT of the air and put them back into a gas can..??


The Thunderstorm Generator = Pyrolysis + a bit of Steam Reformation + a bit of Water-Gas Shift.
+ a bit of Voodoo? Mumbo Jumbo? on top to disguise that fact..?

There may be some as yet not understood science in it and/or the Geet Reactor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einste...de_Haas_effect (Which wont affect fuel in a magnetic field will it..? )
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...42727X80900235
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet...amic_generator
etc.
But get your Right Hand Rule etc out and start imagining the what electromagnetic fields etc and Voodoo? Mumbo Jumbo?? is where I have to leave it, for now...

(Also NB that this kind of talk tends to alienate the 'yes but can I buy the stuff at Walmart?' crowd to the point the thread dies! )

[Logic]

Power Receiver for Extracting Power from Electric Field Energy in the Earth https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150102675A1/en

From a quick scan there is NO evidence that the applicant actually tested any of his 'patent'.
So this is just here for reference (circuit Diagram) atm.

I NB that Thermoacoustic devices are light. Hollow tubes mostly that might be part of a car or bike chassis. (Weight Saving. Increased power to weight ratio of the whole system..?)
With them there is much resonance matching required.

I also NB Quarter Wave (and Helmholtz?) Resonators that kill the frequencies of highest amplitude in engine exhaust remain 'cold' at their closed ends as there is no flow in them.
That means a normal speaker might be used in them to harvest noise energy via a similar resonant circuit..? (and a MPPT..?)
The trick will be to find (or tune) a speaker that happens to also resonate at the desired frequency.

An efficient low-frequency acoustic energy harvester [38%]