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 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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