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@glike2

Жыл бұрын

Scaling limitation opportunity cost for this to be used for airlines first makes ICE car use unlikely. Also the low efficiency and low price seems like an unlikely combination. Lastly the oil industry will lower the price to kill this. Instead of the current passive climate management, the climate crisis will definitely need active climate restoration efforts unfortunately. I would like to see more thorough and open presentation of numbers and assumptions like is done on excellent analysis on the limiting factor channel.

@iamsherlocked84

Жыл бұрын

Your argument that efuels have a window of opportunity is not valid The fact that their inefficiency kills them isn't just about how much extra low carbon energy would be needed to replace fossil fuels by efuels (with the associated environmental and geopolitical impacts). It is also about how this low carbon energy could have been used otherwise to switch off coal, fossil gas in other applications.

@randymurray934

Жыл бұрын

why not use the e-fuel to fuel an electric engine.. That way you get a much better return in the energy output efficiency that you would normally lose in the combustion engine.!

@jackbisson9226

Жыл бұрын

@@randymurray934 Right on the money. eMethanol or eAmmonia (hydrogen carriers) to power fuel cells to power motors FCEV. Japan and Korea are betting on this.

@nervousfrog101

Жыл бұрын

@@randymurray934 Because if you are fueling an electric motor you may as well use a battery as it will take a fraction of the energy to build and charge the battery as it takes to make the fuel ship it to where the car is and then convert it back in to electricity in the car. Using Efuel to power cars is just a way to assuage the congnitive dissonance of people who know we need to stop burning fossil fuels but don't want to.

I know it works, but your titles become too click baity… starts to be a deterrent

@ipp_tutor

Жыл бұрын

It's only click bait if the title doesn't relate to the content or if it gives a misleading idea, which isn't the case.

@nlagas

Жыл бұрын

@@ipp_tutor is it an EPIC breakthrough?

@davestagner

Жыл бұрын

Words that shouldn’t be used in the titles of energy-related stories… “game-changer”, “epic”…

@xiaoka

Жыл бұрын

It’s been a turn off for a long time. How many epic breakthroughs we won’t believe can we have every week??? 😵‍💫

@ibnewton8951

Жыл бұрын

@@davestagner …and *SHOCKED.*

🔌🔌Last month before I retired from Cummins we were allowing the use of Renewable diesel in generators and our truck engines. Many Data Centers and California fleet truck operators west of the Rockies are now using this fuel. Renewable Diesel performs like fossil diesel, with superior performance over biodiesel. It meets ASTM D975 and EN 15490 specifications in compliance with Cummins Diesel engines and most other OEMs. No, it is not 100% CO2 reduction like e-fuels but is 85% which is a step in the right direction until the H2 infrastructure and renewable energy power stations are built.🔌🔌

In the 1980s, the mother earth news research team was successfully using sunshine to distill alcohol fuel. Maybe that could help eleviate some of the energy input needs. Then we have to remember that a 1990s Honda crx was capable of 48 mpg and it wasn't a hybrid. Also, gasification of waste can supply a feedstock for making fuel. That's helping two problems.

I believe that the vehicle most friendly to our environment is one that is ALREADY built..

I avoided this channel for ages because of how click bait the titles were...

I am impressed with your open mindedness toward energy solutions. Most innovations come from outside of the box, and people driven by a narrow and static ideology usually cannot recognize great discoveries.

I’m for electric vehicles, but the carbon footprint for the battery car has a huge footprint.

@rcpmac

20 күн бұрын

That has been debunked a hundred times over. Go away troll

Nice Report. Efuel is a real good solution. not only co2 from air can be use, but also biomass material, or a combination of different sources and still produce reliable liquid fuel.

That would be super cool. I really have trouble wrapping my head around the issue of having to "throw out" billions of current ICE vehicles to replace with electric. Being able to convert them would solve not all but some of the issues.

This span panel is the type of ad promotion we actually value that is related to your content. Bravo

@tedmoss

Жыл бұрын

It costs so much they won't even advertise the price. $4,000 compared to $1,300 for others.

Worth mentioning e-fuels are cleaner burning, no NOx, so no smog

@TwoBitDaVinci

Жыл бұрын

I didn’t mention it but yes!

@hg2.

21 күн бұрын

1) there is nothing unusual happening with the climate. 2) there is nothing wrong with burning fossil fuels. Its problems in high-density areas are trivial to fix and already have been fixed. CO2 is not a pollutant. 3) Climate alarmism is a big-lie superstition supported by tax-bribed liars. (See Climate Discussion Nexus for 100s of videos on climate quackery, deception, and realism.) 4) decarbonization is 21st century pyramid building and human sacrifice. 5) there is NO excuse for expensive electricity. Electricity generation is boring. Just burn coal and scrub the smoke in densely populated areas. 6) the only challenge is manufacturing market quantities of cheap gasoline. South Africa has already done this for decades (Sasol), using coal,

What about good old LPG ( Liquid Peteolium Gas) ? Nobody talks about it. Here in Australia both petrol & diesel have gone up dramatically in price BUT LPG has remained the cheapest at only $1 and diesel at $2.30..... LPG is an e-fuel as it is a cleaner burn and better for the engine. I have a duel LPG/Petrol engine so never get stuck if l run out of LPG.

One thing I have noticed, people are looking a hybrids, but most do not know there is a good alternative to those 20 to 30 miles per gallon cars, I average 42 to 52 town and highway in a mid sized car. With only 13 gallons of gas mine averages 500+ miles per tank, add that up with the new fuel source that should really help with the fossil fuel use and the environment. By the way, Good vid.

@jameskarrie298

Жыл бұрын

Don't hybrid cars cost more than electric cars to manufacture?

@spidergoose891

3 ай бұрын

Why settle there? A properly tuned diesel can double that. I average 55/85. My best tank averaged 89 mpg. (I think I'm still running a little rich)

Hopefully you’re onto something real here!!! LOVE it!! In your description of the downsides of electric cars, you certainly brushed over the environmental issues with getting the materials to make the batteries in the first place, let alone recycle them later!! I’m a fan, but all these arbitrary deadlines that have no technology to back them up are ridiculous!!

@joep9617

Жыл бұрын

I agree. The scare tactic of "we only have X number of years" while pushing the goalpost for the past few decades, has gotten old. There's definitely a great sales pitch for EV's as most people can't physically see the environmental damage since mining is done in other countries; unlike dirty exhaust & oil spills.

@gregkramer5588

Жыл бұрын

@@joep9617 it may be getting old from an emotional standpoint but that is not reflective of the science.

@jtc1947

Жыл бұрын

I am quite sure that there are a lot of Americans like me who could NEVER afford an EV and all of the shackles that come with it. Home charging abilities. Re-cyling the batteries. I wonder how much the insurance cost is, on an EV? These devices are NOT the magical solution that everyone thinks that they are. It seems, in a lot of conversations, that AMERICA is to do and PAY the lion's share while nations like the PRC and others do NOTHING! I wonder how many people know that the PRC builds COAL FIRED plants at an enormous rate? While claiming that THEIR carbon foot-print is going down?

@gregkramer5588

Жыл бұрын

@@jtc1947 The price is not going to be much different going forward. Leaving the house with a full charge everyday and never going for oil changes are not really shackles. Used batteries are already worth good money for stationary use as a second life and recyclers are bidding against each other for them after that.

@grizzlygrizzle

Жыл бұрын

One downside of EVs is their dependence on the electrical grid, and given the march toward fascism in Canada, New Zealand, Brazil, Australia, the EU, and the US, it's better to keep the things we depend on as decentralized as possible. Censorship in the media, social media, and scientific journals has been going on for years, especially regarding climate and covid. Aside from being one of the hallmarks of fascism and Stalinism, it also affects the credibility of the standard climate narrative that is pushed by the World Economic Forum, the foremost international institution that actively promotes global fascism.

A few years ago, I learned how to make diesel fuel from oil. So I made it to run it in my truck until I couldn't get the cooking oil that I needed because everyone at that time was competing for what little cooking oil was available from restaurants. So then I started researching other ways to make it. I discovered that high quality biodiesel could be made from algae. I researched that method and found that it is actually easier to make it with algae than with cooking oil, because the algae could be grown in plastic raceways using just water and sunlight with a little CO2 supplementing. I would think that that could be the fuel of the future. I can build pulse jet engines that will burn biodiesel very well, and it also can run my diesel truck. Just a thought. I'll be moving soon to a location where I can set up my first algae farm. Maybe something that you might want to look into.

you did touch on this but you can make e-fuels with molten salt reactors, since they have much higher temps then old school water based reactors they are more efficient at it and can actually do it, also you just run the reactor at max capacity and make the fuels in low electricity demand times which makes it even cheaper to produce.

I think we WILL see Green H2/Fuel Cell combination for Aircrafts/ Ships/ Heavy Vehicles. Because dragging the weight of empty batteries does not make any sense here.

@Southghost5997

Жыл бұрын

Maybe the heavier vehicles, but not aircraft (at least not long haul)

@simon6071

Жыл бұрын

Good News for fans of electric vehicles. Electric Military Vehicles Are Part of Biden Climate Agenda (What? This news of Joe Biden wanting to replace US military vehicles powered by fossil fuels with electric vehicles is being censored by KZread!!! How come? It should be good news to be promoted by you guys instead of being censored. Why are you guys censoring the decision of your "supreme leader"?)

@simon6071

Жыл бұрын

Come on, KZread "moderators"! Why are you censoring the news of Joe Biden wanting to replace the US military vehicles run on fossil fuels with electric military vehicles? It should be good news to you guys on the radical left who are supposed to believe that electric vehicles will save the planet, shouldn't it? I'm sure you guys are able to understand that if implemented, the US military will certainly have great problem finding suitable and working charging stations on enemy soil when a war breaks out, not to mention that even if they are able to find suitable and working charging stations on enemy soil, the electric US military vehicles will be like sitting ducks at specific target areas for a long time while charging. You guys understand that Joe Biden's decision to replace fossil fuel military vehicles with electric ones is a very stupid decision that will have severe adverse and fatal consequence to the US military, yet you lapdogs of the radical left politicians don't want the Americans to understand the danger or even just be informed that Joe Biden has made such a stupid decision because you guys want to see the US military to be damaged and destroyed from within by the radical left politicians who are traitors to this country and the American people. Shame on you, lapdogs of the radial left politicians.

A few years there was all this hype about producing fuels from algae, and that algae farms would operate like oil refineries to produce fuel, can't help feel this idea will just wither away like that one!

Great video i didn't know about this process

Nuclear powering Efuel plants seems like the obvious bridge to the future for me.

@scottslotterbeck3796

Жыл бұрын

1,000%

Always excited for your videos. 🙃

16% efficiency sounds like a production over time problem that is insurmountable. In the end, that number will need to come up significantly or it will be relegated to a very niche market.

@scottslotterbeck3796

Жыл бұрын

Direct methanol fuel cells..up to 97% efficient.

As a technical detail, the Wright Brothers did not invent powered flight. The first motorized airplane was invented and flown by Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the Maxim machine gun. He has not worked out all of the controls, yet, so the Wright Brothers can be credited with the invention of controlled flight.

It’s amazing how everything is a double edge, sword, pros and cons

It seems to me that efuels would be better suited to gas/electric hybrids. Not sure why everyone fell out of love with them.

@scottslotterbeck3796

Жыл бұрын

Nissan Qashqai

You may be on the mark if Prometheus turns out to be as cost effective as they say. In other words, IF they're as efficient as they indicate, E fuels can be an effective stop-gap until fully electric aircraft, shipping and other diesel transport can be shifted to EV. Other issues may be scarce materials needed for the Prometheus method, etc...

@cryptokoolaid

Жыл бұрын

well its better than mining all minerals for the EV cars

@grizzlygrizzle

Жыл бұрын

I think nuclear is the way to go for generating e-fuel. It solves a lot of the geographical problems.

@colorwashcarsandguitars

11 ай бұрын

There wouldn't be a need to switch anything.

@hg2.

21 күн бұрын

1) there is nothing unusual happening with the climate. 2) there is nothing wrong with burning fossil fuels. Its problems in high-density areas are trivial to fix and already have been fixed. CO2 is not a pollutant. 3) Climate alarmism is a big-lie superstition supported by tax-bribed liars. (See Climate Discussion Nexus for 100s of videos on climate quackery, deception, and realism.) 4) decarbonization is 21st century pyramid building and human sacrifice. 5) there is NO excuse for expensive electricity. Electricity generation is boring. Just burn coal and scrub the smoke in densely populated areas. 6) the only challenge is manufacturing market quantities of cheap gasoline. South Africa has already done this for decades (Sasol), using coal,

This has to be the biggest, overlooked issue no one hears about. The main focus is transportation but no one mentions the billions of other machines, plant and equipment, still being made today all with ICEs. These machines have lifespans of 40-50 years. To scrap them prematurely is not good for the environment, fuel aside. If instead of governments, like in the UK, promoting new oil fields put that money into developing efuels and the power to produce them, that would do a whole lot more for the environment and economy. We need to shout out a lot harder ... this needs to be heard.

Interesting , Thank You . I hope they work

I find your videos to be very informative! Please keep up the good work!

There is a new exhaust purification system being developed that takes the exhaust of a fossil fuel vehicle and runs the exhaust carbon and other expulsions and purifies the carbon coming out of the exhaust into water using a complex condensation system located just behind the back seats. As the exhaust enters the chamber it pressurizes and an amount of water is produced then the water produced by the system is sent through a complex filter that removes other expulsions contained in the water and what comes out the tail pipe is cleaned air. It brand new and experiments are being done to improve the system.

@MissMeganBeckett

6 ай бұрын

That’s so excited, I hope it works and that it becomes standard in the future, maybe then some cities built around a bowl depression like Toronto will be able to have better air quality?

Good points made. On a similar point ICE engine are more efficient in cold climates, where I live, as the waste heat is not wasted but used as it’s required in the passenger cabin and engine components. So there will be a blend as no one tools fits all situations.

how about setting up efuel plant outside a electrical generating plant using the efuel to run the plant

If only we could perfect Star Trek's transporter technology, all this would be a moot point (no cynical comments, plz... it was a joke). I really do enjoy these videos; the future will be a fascinating prospect to watch unfold.

@trolly4233

Жыл бұрын

Aren’t the transporters suicide though…?

Like your videos! They are so good thank you

@TwoBitDaVinci

Жыл бұрын

🙏

Hi Maersk and Orsted are at 54% conversion efficiency for green methanol now and the cost were briefly cheaper than Heavy Marine Oil last year. There is absolutely no doubt that renewable based fuels will outcompete fossil fuels on pure cost. MIT just published $56/ton carbon capture where about 60% of cost was the 770kWh per ton required and the rest CAPEX for a floating system. This suggest that they have modeled with offshore wind costing $0.044, which is definitively to the high side especially because there is no need for a substation, HVDC and landstation that at least cost 30% of the energy generation. To produce a ton of Heavy Marine Oil you need 3.1ton CO2 and about 0.1ton H2 plus electricity.

Getting good at plucking Carbon Dioxide from the air and making carbon-nano-tube type things with it is the key to human civilization becoming awesome.

Your researchers should watch Peak Prosperity. They had a recent episode In which they displayed a paper from a prominent researcher who detailed how long it would take just to mine the necessary minerals to replace all the cars with EV’s. I believe the most abundant mineral would take 250 years at today’s mining rates and the more rare minerals would need several thousand years. John Stossel just released a two-part series on EV’s as well that would have also been an excellent source for this video. Replacing ICE with EV’s is 100% pie in the sky, unless we find a way to make batteries from sand and double our electric grid overnight. Great video!

@scottslotterbeck3796

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. But Greenies just stick their fingers in their ears and say, Nah Nah Nah!!!

Love it! Where ever you have solar panels producing power, and a grid not able to fully utilize it.... make some e-fuel untill demand spikes again

@douglee2438

Жыл бұрын

Ditto with wind power. Wind turbines often sit idle at night due to lack of demand.

@sharonbraselton4302

Жыл бұрын

wibd hyder ñukale hybder

Actually, e-fuels can be purer than the distillates (even with additives) to produce convenient and less damaging fuels overall. Big elephant in the room. Getting the renewable electricity in the first place. An absolutely astonishing build out of solar infrastructure and localized _energy storage_ is required. This is by far the highest hurdle for any "green" plans and without a megaton of more investment into both sectors of a green energy cycle, all the thought experiments in the world won't change anything.

Epic breakthrough .... another epic breakthrough tomorrow.. Epic

This idea has seen the end of many companies for decades. I remember telling my chemistry professor about this 7 years ago and he said this had been done many times. What is different now?

@whitlockbr

Жыл бұрын

What happens if the concentration of co2 goes down so far that the processes increase the price of the production 🤔

@maikt904

Жыл бұрын

as layman here and i had to guess the scarcity of crude oil and or fossil fuel in general with political landscape changing and the limited amount of them overall

Nice to see you thinking about legacy and alternative fuels rather than just complete energy transitions … the Smart governments among us will do the math and realise many have screwed up. They then will consider the other options that they seem to be ignoring now … I’m hoping cleaner alternative fuels will rank high on their priorities as I like driving my Classics …

@tedmoss

Жыл бұрын

Driving classics was never a problem or a consideration to solve the problem, it might get a little more expensive when gas stations disappear though.

@dannyp9537

Жыл бұрын

I have to ask the not so obvious question, Isn't all of the oil in the ground from plants that used to be on the Earth? So all of the CO2 (oil) in the ground used to be on the Earth. Life thrived and the Earth didn't burn up. I'm not against "cleaner" burning fuels but, could we be wrong about C02? The Earth does seem to be greener with the rise in C02 levels. Not to be controversial but...

@brynphillips9957

Жыл бұрын

@@dannyp9537 Short answer is no. It isn't greener in the slightest. Frankly we are facing the largest amount of dying off species in the history of our recording and a good part of it is due to climate change. Yes, the Life can spread in a warmer world when it has had the usual time to adapt to it (which is usually 10s of thousands of years). Life however cant adapt fast enough with the speed of the climate transtion.

@Israel_Two_Bit

Жыл бұрын

@@brynphillips9957 I agree. Although Danny makes a good point, taking the concept of time out of the equation can easily lead one to wrong conclusions. Take sunbathing as an example. If you lie in the sun for a couple of hours a day, you'll probably get a nice tan, since the cells in your body have time to create the melanine needed to protect the cell's nucleous from radiation damage, and your circulatory system has time to safely dissipate the excess heat on your skin through the different temperature regulation mechanisms. But if you a week's worth of sunlight onto your skin in an hour or two, there simply won't be enough time for your body to adapt. It's the same with the planet, only on a much larger physical and temporal scale.

@tkc1129

Жыл бұрын

@Danny P Well some of that carbon is likely from a time before the world was what we now consider habitable. But on the other hand, I reckon most of the CO2 that was one in the atmosphere is now literally the dirt under our feet. Some of the more reasonable climate-conscious concerns are that the climate change brought about by humans is many orders of magnitude faster than the natural change in carbon content, and that many species won't have time to adapt. On the other hand, I am coming to believe there is no "best case scenario." With high CO2, there will be no more ice ages, which is probably good, but... a lot of rivers have been diminishing over recorded history because they are fed by glaciers that been been slowly melting since the last ice age. So no more ice ages means less available fresh water. But if we hadn't burned fossil fuels, it is likely that in a few hundred million years, CO2 levels would have been too low to support photosynthesis, and life on Earth would have ended. And before that, slowly dropping CO2 levels would have caused ice ages to be longer and more severe. Sooooo... *shrug*

Thanks for informing all of us. This is how we solve the issues that humanity faces, with information. It might not look good to everyone, but someone will see it and come up with a better idea.

e-cars yes, e-intercontinental planes no. Finally, someone is bringing information about this technology to KZread. There are no panaceas, different technology must be applied to different areas of the energy problem.

The amount of fuel a fighter jet burns is insane. I was a crew cheif on a10 warthogs and it took over 10k pounds of JP8. This is just one aircraft out of thousands that are constantly flying too. A single C5 Galaxy holds 49,000 gallons. I can't even imagine what something like a cruise ship holds and burns...

@TwoBitDaVinci

Жыл бұрын

A10 crew chief! that's amazing! wow i'd love to hear about what that was like... we did a video on the A10 on our aviation channel: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZIyg2KyYfJfFhbQ.html cheers!

@alexlindekugel8727

Жыл бұрын

ships go by ft of fuel if that helps and and depending where they are have diffrent tanks for diffrent fuels. but 1.5 to 2million gallons of fuel oil. for sea freighters.

@Israel_Two_Bit

Жыл бұрын

Now picture doing that with batteries!

@rustyshackle917

Жыл бұрын

Maybe we don't need thousands of military aircraft constantly flying 🤔

@davidmccarthy6061

Жыл бұрын

@@rustyshackle917 We sort of do. Like all ICE, running them keeps them healthier. Also the pilots need to stay sharp, recertify on new equipment, and of course do their primary jobs.

Excellent video. You covered powering the conversion using wind and solar. I would like to know more about the economics of doing this conversion using forth generation nuclear plants or even the older nuclear plants Germany closed.

@tedmoss

Жыл бұрын

Or even mirrors.

This is fantastic news. It's good for the short term, we can blend this efuel with regular fuel to mitigate the emissions. It should be used in the most polluting applications at first like flying. The downside as you mentioned is it's inefficiency and resource intensive, uses lots of land. In the long term we can use this to get co2 out of the air and put the oil back in the ground.

@scottslotterbeck3796

Жыл бұрын

The downside is burning efuels still emits pollution, but ZERO CO2 (since the CO2 you emit is recaptured and made into hydrocarbon fuels.). And modern cars do not emit much NO and CO, as well as soot.

Nice presentation, have you looked at the use of Ammonia at all... Years ago one of the fastest flights just under the space environment, was carried out by a modified jet plane... Nowadays the process of manufacturing Green Ammonia is using a renewable source of electricity and simply water and air.... A business called FEUL POSITIVE ticker NHHHF, has machinery that can be site based and it requires far less energy than the traditional construction using Faber Bosch.... Would be nice to hear from you about this option, it is a very easy process to modify ICE to run on this feul too... So again we get to keep the main infrastructure and it saves a lot of carbon footprint as the vehicles used now... Won't need to be scrapped and then huge environmental costs for remanufacture..... Ammonia has far greater in transit stability and already its being adopted in the Marine sectors... Plus it is very good for the production of fertiliser, indeed tractor and pick up trucks have already been converted.... If you have featured this already, please provide us with the link.... Look forward to your response and content... The EV is not necessarily the only way forward, although the push is undeniable..

This is probably the best solution I've heard yet. At 13:38 you mention this is the best stop gap for our transition to sustainable technologies is absolutely correct.

@ipp_tutor

Жыл бұрын

Finally, someone who gets it! It's nice to think about how awesome it'll be to replace every car on Earth with EVs, but it's not a practical short-term solution. #1 We need to do something about carbon emissions coming from the billions of cars on the streets today. We can't just CTRL+A CRTL+X all those vehicles, and we can't realistically convert them all to hydrogen to make them greener, so if we can keep using them as they are without adding more carbon into the atmosphere, that's awesome. #2 Regardless of round-trip conversion efficiency, solutions like efuels can help us take the available renewable energy in far-away places like Southern Chile and Australia to literally anywhere in the world. Try doing that with power lines! Or do the math and figure out how many batteries you'd need to store that energy and transport it somewhere else. That said, green hydrogen would be a much better alternative, but it doesn't solve the problem with all the cars currently on the roads today. So, the whole point is to find an acceptable, cost-effective way to use surplus renewable energy to indirectly power billions of gas-hungry vehicles, while we gradually phase them out. I think it's brilliant.

@themacker894

Жыл бұрын

Sadly, anyone who suggests anything but EV’s will be canceled in a heartbeat, all while California endures rolling blackouts due to grid insufficiency and the governor asks people not to charge their cars on hot days.

@YounesLayachi

Жыл бұрын

@@ipp_tutor some of today's industries rely on combustion engines and dense fuels. Cars aren't one of them, most people don't need cars. So instead of trying to "solve" the problem, by using cars we're just beating around the bush. Of course i'm not saying cars shouldn't exist, but the ideal number of course would be somewhere around 1% of today's number of cars

@-opus

Жыл бұрын

It could also be argued that this will be an excuse and will stop/slow the transition to "sustainable technologies", as is often the case with humanity.

@ipp_tutor

Жыл бұрын

@@YounesLayachi most people don’t need cars? Really? Spoken like someone who probably lives in a country where mass public transportation actually works. Tell that to the hundreds of millions of people around the world who don’t and rely on their (NOT)EVs and (NOT)e-motorcycles to get to work or school every day. I’ll bet there are thousands of them who would just love to do their part for the planet and replace their Polluting, ICE-powered cars for an EV but can’t. Give them an option that can make them feel better about their situation while they make enough to make the transition, and they’ll love you for it. F- on empathy toward humanity.

Hi I just subscribed because you have interesting content. I say let's keep testing and trying every new thing and don't give up. Efuel sounds awesome especially here in Australia large expansions of land where evs aren't practical and the cost to buy for most people is beyond us including me

@Israel_Two_Bit

Жыл бұрын

This is so true. This is exactly why we need these types of solutions to help us during the transition and why I think eFuels are awesome. Untill we fix EVs range problem and untill they become as cheap or cheaper than ICEs so that EVERYONE, not just people in California or Germany, can afford them, most of the world will keep using ICEs. What's awesome about eFuels is that they decouple ICEs from fossil fuels, which in the past were unavoidably linked.

Won't go anywhere Ricky. The cost of the fuel plus the engine maintenance will kill it in the cradle.

I've been saying this for years ... synth fuels are even better, they are pure, no contaminants like sulfur or particles that end up in the atmosphere. But, another alternative is the fuel cells that run in ethanol or methanol.

I think E-Fuels might be the solution for slow solar or wind powered fuel generation in distributed locations. Sounds exciting.

@gregbailey45

Жыл бұрын

Cheaper to go to local electric generation via wind and solar PV.

@scottslotterbeck3796

Жыл бұрын

Hydrogen fuel cells are a promising way of storing energy from solar cells.

I ended up buying a new ICE car cuz cant afford an EV. And I am trying to think of any advantages as I plan to keep this car for as long as possible. One thought is if I am traveling the country with an ebike I should be able to keep the ebike battery charged while driving by plugging into an inverter. Most ebikes should take about 6 hours of driving for a full charge, or say you may get 5 miles of ebike range for every hour of charging while driving. Or you could also charge a portable power bank like a Yeti or Jackery. But If I were to do so in an EV I imagine this would drain the ev battery and reduce the range. With the gas car the range will be uneffected and extra energy will be produced by charging the battery without using extra fuel. Is it not so ? This has me wondering about how much extra energy could be produced if every ICE out there were charging batteries all the time while driving. Am I mistaken or is this right that gas cars can produce additional energy this way whereas ev’s do not ?

@Madhava1977

Жыл бұрын

@@real_mikkim Have you actually shopped for a car lately ? If you have then you’d find that msrp means nothing anymore because new cars sell for way above msrp and the tax credit no longer applies. I checked out bolts and even with the $5900 price drop Chevy applied after tax credit expired, a Bolt still would would have cost me 5k more out the door than the 27k I got a Corolla gas car for. MSRP is nothing anymore but a catch to get customers to the dealership so they can upsell you.

@gastonpossel

Жыл бұрын

You can't produce "extra energy". All energy produced by an ICE, whereas mechanical, thermal or electric energy, comes from the fuel. To charge your e-bike with electricity produced by the gas engine means a portion of fuel is spent into that task only. Now whether that's more or less economical than plugging the bike to the grid comes down to how efficient is your engine in relation to a power plant.

@tombh74

Жыл бұрын

I imagine the battery capacity of a ebike is miniscule compares to the ev battery, so the battery drain from charging the ebike will be negligible.

How long is it going to be before any of these ventures reaches commercial scale such that it will make q nontrivial impact?

Well the problem is the alcohol is to hot and burn out the piston or can we fine a better material that can handle the heat. Any may be they already found away HOPE

This channel is really nice from my perspective and Ricky's voice is very easy to listen to, but I was shocked when I heard that it was sponsored by SPAM. ;-) I backed it up and replayed that intro to verify what I thought I had heard. YIKES - what a name :) SPAN looks very interesting. System efficiency (the ENTIRE system) for eFuels sounds very iffy. It sounds like something Bernie Madoff or Sam Bankman-Fried would be selling. Just WONDERFUL on the outside, but the inside is a little more odorous. I still question the efficiency claims for EVs. Does that 90% actually include the complete system efficiency, or just the consumption vs transportation portion of it? If it includes everything, even the raw materials for manufacturing of the vehicles AND the windmills, solar farms and such, then it's pretty nice. I've never seen those claims tho'. There is also the point of energy being consumed to turn into the currency that is used to purchase the vehicles. The whole of each system would make a really good comparison.

@sjsomething4936

Жыл бұрын

I too would love an end-to-end comparison, the best I’ve seen so far is one Volvo did, which included factoring in the method of producing the electricity for the EV. It demonstrated that with current-for-the-time production methods, ICE vehicles were less CO2 to produce, which I believe included the mining of the minerals for the batteries as well. Over the average lifespan of the vehicle however, in all situations the EV emitted fewer pounds of CO2, and I strongly suspect that only factored in the gasoline consumed by the vehicle, not the CO2 generated by production of the gasoline for the ICE vehicle. You REALLY wouldn’t want to see the end-to end efficiency of gasoline production, the refining process alone requires an incredible amount of energy. If someone comes up with a method of efficiently extracting the lithium from seawater, it’ll be completely game over for the ICE vehicles. Efficiency of electricity production is very high, as it doesn’t require transport from source (oil well) to refinery, and then on to the end consumer. It’s simply produced and fed into the grid, which then distributes it right to the end consumption point.

@HaroldBrice

Жыл бұрын

I will gladly drive an electric vehicle when the power comes from a NUCLEAR powerplant. @@sjsomething4936

@grizzlygrizzle

Жыл бұрын

I also question his acceptance of the degree of the severity of the climate crisis put forth by the heavily-censored, heavily-hyped "science." Censored science is corrupted science, as we learned with covid.

@OneWildTurkey

Жыл бұрын

@@grizzlygrizzle People need to recognize the difference between science and $cience.

What about pollution such as NOX and carbon particulates that cause a lot of health problems? Also the efficiency bit killed it for me.

Great crazy subject worth visiting just to acquaint non-techies with entropy. Having said that innovation starts by taking improbable routes

Awesome! On the Right Track Wait Till I Release MY DESIGN Your Mind Will Love It So Will The Environment

@mal7344

Жыл бұрын

A Complimentary Disruptive Design For All ICE Designs A Fundamental Positve Interaction When New Meets Old A SYNTHESIS

I’d certainly think about a hybrid vehicle using e fuel as long as it has an efficient regenerative braking system

The key is to not NEED everything to be purely electrified. HHO and Methane are highly efficient combustion fuels.

@LinuxLuddite

Жыл бұрын

CNG engines are becoming popular in various developing companies

@RandyTWester

Жыл бұрын

HHO? Is that any different from H20, or is it just hydrogen?

@billlyell8322

Жыл бұрын

Tell me how will the poor afford these cars. They have to get to work to survive. You plan to to kill them all off? Or do we sieze all your wealth to provide them with an electric car??

@firstdomelastdome2918

Жыл бұрын

@@RandyTWester shhh; big companies will hunt you

@EctoMorpheus

Жыл бұрын

​@@RandyTWester H2O would be water; hydrogen gas is just H. HHO is a 2:1 mixture of hydrogen to oxygen and is what you get if you split water molecules. It's a very explosive mix

Its all good. We need to get heavily into SMRs (small modular reactors) that run on Thorium and or nuclear waste.

as someone who loves an EV, it would be sad to see the internal combustion engine go! This is why I'm so excited to see carbon-neutral fuels like synthetic fuels and stuff that will prevent the use of fossil fuels and be carbon neutral one of the solutions that can save the combustion engine!

We are in a bad place, all reasonable solutions need to be tried at the same time.

@alphaxfang

Жыл бұрын

is it not? doesn't see any other research get axed when there is new "breakthrough" in the market...

Great video and way to think out of the box. One question: Are there other processes for converting Hydrocarbons into energy that are more efficient than ICEs?

@tomislavruzicic3955

Жыл бұрын

Gas turbine I think...

@scottslotterbeck3796

Жыл бұрын

Fuel cells. Direct methanol fuel cells are up to 97% efficient.

@connecticutaggie

Жыл бұрын

@@scottslotterbeck3796 Interesting, I wonder if it is possible that transmitting energy using methanol in pipelines might be more efficient and electricity through wires.

@mnomadvfx

Жыл бұрын

There was something called the Wave Disc engine a decade ago that looked promising. Basically a hi efficiency hybrid concept where you just use the engine as a purely petrol -> electric generator with everything else being the same as an EV, so inverters, electric motors etc. I suspect the aggressive ramping of battery production may have killed it in its infancy. The last news was a study paper released in 2017 by Columbia University titled: "Two-Stage Wave Disk Engine Concept and Performance Prediction"

How do these efuel techs compare with Hydrogen Paste?

Again, nicely done. If only consumers would stand up en mass and consolidate their power…

Standing still is an improvement over running backwards. It is not a replacement for moving forward. The concept of using e-fuels to minimize damage while we move forward with more sustainable solutions is great... Except for one little problem. If you give politicians an easy way out, a 'have your cake and eat it too' solution, guess what they are going to jump on, fund, promote, and divert previous resources and public opinion towards... Yeah, whatever gets them the most votes. The easy way.

@remix7345

Жыл бұрын

well thats a rather dystopian and pessimistic way to look at things. the ball is already rolling on both electric vehicles and an electric power grid. widescale adoption of efuels wouldnt stop that. theres money to be made in both of them and where there's money there's progress. it's not really a step forward or step back, it's more like growing a third leg and walking in whichever direction has more muscles. though it's definitely harder to walk when you cut two of your three legs off when your third leg is an atrophied little infant peg.

@TheSulross

Жыл бұрын

building EVs at scale without wrecking the environment and causing all manner of raw materials scarcities (especially copper) is not at all a solved problem - as things stand now, EVs are not even a viable option. Which really just leaves ICE vehicles using synthetic fuels

@scottslotterbeck3796

Жыл бұрын

Education and knowledge wins out, even over politicians.

could be a good combination of both if you have hybrids running on e-fuels.

Whether it's synthetic fuel, regular gas, or BEV's, I think we're all at the point of agreement that there is--and HAS to be--room for all of these technologies to keep the world moving forward.

@scottslotterbeck3796

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!!!

This is in Kepler Carbon ReCapture's roadmap, in their stage 2 platforms. They are using a process that takes CO2 straight from the water and renewable energy from the ocean. They will use the carbon to make many durable goods and materials as well as fuels! A complete win/win!

@gregbailey45

Жыл бұрын

Much better than de-sequestering the carbon!

@scottslotterbeck3796

Жыл бұрын

Sequestration is idiotic. Modern catalytic processes can make either solid carbon or hydrocarbon fuels efficiently. Technology to the rescue. THIS is the answer!

@PGGraham

Жыл бұрын

@@scottslotterbeck3796 thank you for explaining in one simple KZread comment, without any supporting documentation, what the hundreds of thousands of scientists and engineers who are working on CCS obviously know nothing about. You must be the smartest man alive!

@sharonbraselton4302

Жыл бұрын

yeeß

The evolution of fuels is starting now! Yiu have made a very interesting content. Thank you :) P.S.: Subtitles are missleading - something is wrong with subtitles...

@TwoBitDaVinci

Жыл бұрын

i'll check it out, thanks!

Is it definite than ethanol And would it be easier to make it out of ethanol Is emisons to break down Almost any plant materials Into ethanol And fertilizer or feedstock for livestock

Efficiency is secondary to survival, getting half the ice engines not adding to co2 would be great, jetfighters will always be ice but they are a minor cost/blip, only the ultra rich will be able to run petrol engines i expect.

@sharonbraselton4302

Жыл бұрын

hyybred ice eltrruc baateery

Also be useful as a generator for ev’s (because a small engine could be a generator it could be much more efficient running at constant speeds to provide electricity to the motors or small battery pack), . Additionally could also be used to run a fuel cell and provide electricity. As the main motors are electric, benefits of low maintenance is retained. A Company called Twelve has been chosen by military to supply e-gas from small semi trailer sized portable generating plants. The world is really changing! Thanks for the great vids!

@tedmoss

Жыл бұрын

The reason to supply the military is not because it is a good idea for everyone, it is just to solve a military problem.

So the fuel is gonna be half as effective but you can put it in a car and a plane. In an aircraft, weight is a lot more of an issue. For cars though, it sounds like using e fuels might require you to fuel up twice as much in the future. It might become one of those ethanol things where they start cutting pure gasoline like we do now.

@ronblack7870

Жыл бұрын

that's not how i saw it. the fuel will be the same in your car . the process to create the fuel ends up with 15 % efficiency overall not your car gets half the mileage.

@scottslotterbeck3796

Жыл бұрын

Look into M85. 85% methanol (used in drag racing) and 15% gasoline. Wxisting engines can run on it with modification.

@thespectator5259

Жыл бұрын

You misunderstood OP. The end product of Petrol E-Fuel is the same as Petrol Fossil fuel. It's just to get there, it's even more energy inefficient than normal petrol dug up from the ground.

Yes, the bottom line of efuels costs $$. If it is too expensive to fill up a tank of efuel in the future it is probably cheaper to convert a gas-powered vehicle to fully electric. Or is it?

Good comments. Will watch the vidio. Interesting. Thanks for good stuff.

Hey Ricky thanks for this interesting video! Of course going deep into this subject would take more than 15 minutes but this is a good overview of the market and technologies, so thank you. Btw you definitely have to check Synhelion, a Swiss company that makes jet fuel out of solar energy (with mirrors, not PV panels). Cheers from Switzerland!

@TwoBitDaVinci

Жыл бұрын

i'll check them out!

@scottslotterbeck3796

Жыл бұрын

This may be Professor Steinfeld's process, producing fuel stocks for aviation using sunlight and CO2 from the air. ETH institute in Zurich, Switzerland.

Every nuclear reactor produces a lot of heat besides electricity. It's a billion dollar job to catch this heat and convert it into something useful. Example: russian VVR-1200 produces 1,2 GWatt of electricity and over 3 GWatt of heat dissipating into atmosphere.

The exhaust from e-fuels are still bad for your health, that doesn't change. Also the only e-fuel that actually makes sense is "biogas" (renewable methane) since it's a natural waste product anyway making it the most environmentally friendly fuel right after green electricity. Biogas is also a drop in replacement for natural.gas, meaning all existing gas pipes can be used for distribution. Gasoline cars can be converted to run on methane no need to trash them and they can still run on gasoline in emergencies since they have two "tanks" for each fuel. The best thing to do to plug-in hybrids would be to convert the gas engine to run on methane, so you can drive on battery most trips and use methane for long trips only.

How about a video on the mining of lithium and other minerals needed for ev batteries.

@scottslotterbeck3796

Жыл бұрын

Exactly!!!

I like the logic: - Problem: we took too much carbon from the ground and put it in the atmosphere. - Solution: let's make a technology that allows us to take the carbon out of the atmosphere. - But instead of putting it back in the earth to repair the damage we have done, lets use that technology to sale more fuel and put it back in the atmosphere solving the problem once and for all.

@Mr.Blatz-

Жыл бұрын

That doesn't mean the overall burden of carbon in the atmosphere can't be reduced while using e-fuels. You can still put the majority of the carbon you scrub from the air back into the ground.

Light and thick synth fuels might have a niche. Light for jets in the air and thick for ships in the ocean. Fuels coming from the middle of the rectification column hopefully will be replaced by batteries.

@EarthCreature.

Жыл бұрын

Nope. Because Lilium.

@robsollart2580

Жыл бұрын

@@EarthCreature. ? So I googled Lilium: Nice!, really beautyfull! But I think if you'd scale that up to to the size of a big long distance commercial airplane you would transport more batteries then passengers.

@scottslotterbeck3796

Жыл бұрын

No batteries!!!

John Kanzius developed a way to divide the water molecule using radio waves!

The problem is not the internal combustion engine. It is the fuel the engine uses and the efficiency of burning the fuel. Ammonia can be used as a fuel that produces no carbon emissions. Green Ammonia stores hydrogen for use as a fuel eliminating the carbon footprint. Hydrogen from electrolysis can improve fossil fuel or refuel combustion efficiency by 20 to 100 percent depending on the application and system design. There are plenty of alternatives to fossil fuel use in ICE's that are carbon neutral or zero carbon.

E-fuels also makes a really good battery when combined with generators. You could even use the most efficient fuel type, still a loss of efficiency, but it sure uses less area.

@playgt326

Жыл бұрын

Conclusion, we need ICEs, EVs and hybrids together, including fuel cells and H2-ICEs for a balance and energy efficiency. ♻️

@Israel_Two_Bit

Жыл бұрын

@@playgt326Well said. What's the key to risk reduction? DIVERSIFICATION

@playgt326

Жыл бұрын

@@Israel_Two_Bit Exactly, using bioelectricity, biofuels, hydrogen and e fuels, clean and renewable souces. ♻️

What i need is a home unit to make my own fuel.

I needed to build a firewood hybrid.

Hi Rikki, great video. Fisher Tropsh is indeed inefficient as was found during its use in world war 2. However I like that idea of disolving CO2 in water and taking it from there. I also like the idea that it might be "bottled sunlight" or "bottled wind" that might otherwise go to waste. You have totally the right attitude that, from where we are today we need to explore all avenues even if they are only stepping stones, or playing for time to get the golden bullet.

@TwoBitDaVinci

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for that… well said and I appreciate you taking the time to write. Cheers!

There was a company called Cell Energy ten or more years ago that had a non polluting nano hydrogen gasoline replacement that they said would go in existing engines and cost $1/gal. I followed them for a few years. They became a hydrogen storage company then disappeared. Hope these efuels take off.

@klepow

Жыл бұрын

A lot of companies have made claims like that.

The rerise of sail ships!!

Nope. Don't miss plugs and tuning and filters and oil-changes and clutches and mufflers and all that bunk. May they Rest In Peace. Forever.

From a strict driving enjoyment perspective, ICE doesn't hold a candle to EV. The power, torque and efficiency turns the vehicle into something that basically responds to your thoughts immediately, without having to be in the appropriate power band to do so. The lower center of gravity makes for handling like it's on a rail. I REALLY want that.

@sandyfordd1843

Жыл бұрын

19th Century ICE tech Vs 21st Century BEV tech. I know which one I would choose every single time. (I know that the first cars were battery powered using lead-acid batteries). BEV is where the money is at. If you like being on the losing side of history then continue to support fossil fuels.

@nightshadehelis9821

Жыл бұрын

I hate sounding like a fan boy, but out of every single car I've ever been in, my model S Is my favorite. Nothing beats the instant acceleration.

@hamsterbrigade

Жыл бұрын

While enjoyment is a subjective statement. You're objectively incorrect on the handling argument. The majority of EVs are currently BEVs, they weigh too much. With the current weight issues they'll never handle as well as a lightweight ICE vehicle(when comparing similar ranges). Grip isn't linear, it's heavily affected by vehicle mass(change of direction is fighting momentum[m*v]). As for enjoyment, I'd personally argue being able to shift gears and hear an ICE engine tuned to make a pleasing exhaust note adds two more senses to the driving experience which personally gives me way more enjoyment and immersion.

@angrysarcasm2229

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you; however, if we're unable to overcome the battery capacity issues we currently face, this would be a good alternative. I think we're where we need to be with cars, but not larger vehicles like trucks and tractor trailers.

@anydaynow01

Жыл бұрын

For an everyday driver commuting appliance perspective I'll take my EV any day, never going back to pure ICE for that. For my fun track day car nothing beats the fun and reward of clipping off lap after lap in a manual ICE car, I didn't even like driving a DCT car, it's just too much like a video game and gets boring after the sense of speed becomes numb.

Great balanced and informative video. Trade offs are at the heart of every decision. Sometimes the trade offs are a win win, but most of the time not so much.

Carbon capture on a gas power plant using E fuels and biogas will be carbon neutral so this method of energy storage could assist removing green house gasses too

A catalytic process changes spent gasses into harmless CO2 and water. Is there not a process to perhaps jump start the process in reverse or is the competition for minerals from battery manufacturing a problem if there is one?

EVs are a boom for the tire companies! Tires wear out faster!

@johnDukemaster

Жыл бұрын

Yes, and those tires are the biggest micro plastic polluter.