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Re:A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC ... by rmcginnis on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @10:49PM (#19794105)
Hi, this is Rob, founder of Prometheus. The conversion of CO2 and water to gasoline is not a super efficient process, likely 50-60% at best in the near term, but that's ok, if the electricity is from a zero carbon source like solar or wind, and the cost of the electricity is low (which these days it is).

The CNT membranes are being made at full commercial scale now by my previous startup, Mattershift. Ready to go!

We've got scientists and engineers from national labs and previous efforts like Project Foghorn at Google. Hope to share some new hires soon.

There was a podcast that was associated with the article, that runs 21 minutes and goes into more details: https://megaphone.link/BLM3585271197

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Re:A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC ... by Hasz on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @11:20PM (#19794262)
Hey, thanks, and best of luck, what a cool company.

It seems like you're on the cusp of breaking even from yongjik's back of the envelope math, at least for the US commercial market. Is this a refinement of Fischer-Tropsch?

However, I think you're barking up the wrong tree. The US military pays $hundreds of dollars to get fuel into a warzone. If you can make diesel (which I think you can), you don't have to go after a $3 a gallon target, you go after a $300 target. You can perfect it on sweet sweet DARPA money at a price point that will make you rich and save the military a shitload of money.

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Re:A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC ... by kaennar on Monday May 06, 2019 @04:06PM (#19843246)
That sounds like a particularly interesting answer, but I wonder what the power and factory requirements would be to have something like this at a FOB or base?

Surely most operating bases use gas powered generators to run and not solar right?

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Re:A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC ... by effie on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @11:37AM (#19859849)
This is genius. Also, the US military can expand everywhere and force everyone to use only the new climate friendly american fuel (TM) for affordable price.
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