A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC W19)

Re:A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC ... by amluto on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @08:05PM (#19793276)

Or nuclear. A big nuclear plant could be built somewhere with cheap land, no earthquakes, and minimal weather. You don’t even need electric transmission infrastructure.

If the capital costs are low enough, cheap or free spot electricity could be used, too. California regularly has excess production.

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Re:A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC ... by m463 on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @09:21PM (#19793712)

That would be ironic.

We would gradually go from coal and (natural gas) powered electric cars, to nuclear powered ICE cars.

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Re:A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC ... by gridspy on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @09:56PM (#19793867)

I think the point is that we

1. Keep making more electric cars 2. Rather than throwing away ICE cars, we give them better fuel to use.

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Re:A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC ... by amluto on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @10:25AM (#19797251)

There are also ICE farm and construction vehicles, airplanes, generators in rural areas, pumps, etc. Gasoline is an extremely convenient fuel.

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Re:A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC ... by rmcginnis on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @10:51PM (#19794117)

Agreed!

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