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I mean dimethyl ether: DME. Unfortunately, I really doubt we are nearing a collapse in demand for oil. This technology seeks to convert the transportation industry to safe, cheap, and green hydrogen power, but bitumen derived products are used as an industrial feedstock for countless products that make modern society. This technology can reduce the CO2 emissions of extracting and distributing bitumen by 85% - >100%, while reducing the capital costs by 65% - 85%. It allows transitional oil to be produced cheaply, relatively cleanly, and in countries that don't violate human rights or fund terrorists.
I am working with a chemist to find investors & industrial partners to advance a lab tested technology that uses DME as a solvent to extract & distribute bitumen in a dramatically cleaner & cheaper way.

This technology has major applications for hydrogen energy. DME can be converted into Hydrogen at the source of demand using a lightweight portable system that can be outfitted on vehicles and generators. By storing & transporting DME, and then converting to hydrogen on demand, the hydrogen economy can immediately utilize the existing global fossil fuel infrastructure, rather then develop & scale alternative methods of transportation and distribution. Storing DME also circumvents the serious technical & safety challenges inherent in storing hydrogen gas.

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If you're interested, please look at the technical summary website. There are so many advantages to this technology over our existing system that I just can't fit into a brief primer.

http://envirotechdme.com/

We have done laboratory tests, but in order to see real industrial adoption we need to do field demonstrations of the technology in action. We are looking for technically minded investors & industrial partners to help take this tech to the next stage.

Re:Ask HN: Non-violent video games with great stories? on Saturday June 04, 2022 @06:16PM (#31625623)
Riven is another brilliant game that shares the structure of using information about the world as both the purpose and the means to exploration.

Outer Wilds excels with creative planets full of adventure, while Riven is a slow paced affair that is impressively dedicated to creating an intricate world wordlessly.

Without written aids ala the logs in Outer Wilds, gleaning insights from disparate information in Riven often means scrawling down notes & looking for patterns.

While I highly reccomend Riven for fans of the structure of Outer Wilds, Riven is now a dated game that operates at a glacial pace. I played it recently at a time that I was taking a break from more modern games and I think that did wonders for helping me adjust to its conventions & pace. If you give it a shot know that it'll demand your patience before it'll absorb you into its world.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bsh_vyAfMuE

Re:In search of organic software on Monday May 16, 2022 @02:38PM (#31401596)
just wanted to say the actual mind mapping tool the author is building has is a stylish and cozy piece of software. The wii shop music remix attached to the pricing card made me grin.
Re:Making fifty TIC-80 carts in a weekend on Saturday May 14, 2022 @08:54AM (#31377452)
Some great inspiration to dig back into fantasy consoles
Sorry for the late reply, if you want you can give me a shout at [email protected]
Re:U.S. physicists rally around plan to build fusion power plant on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:19AM (#25356476)
I've been helping with messaging for somebody looking for demonstration funding for an experimentally proven clean oil recovery technology and it makes me feel hopeless seeing there are so many people struggling to demonstrate potentially game changing technologies, often because people investing or allocating money have little technical competence.

for those curious: http://www.envirotechdme.com

If I could offer you some pointers:

- Separate the Youtube account you use for this technology from the one you use personally.

- Specify in nontechnical language the advantage this tech has over similar fusion technologies. (still working on this myself)

- Seek peer review and then highlight that peer review directly on your website. My intuition is that most people or departments who are capable of funding a demonstration are not capable of validating the science behind your technology.

- I would recommend writing and attaching a succinct summary of your technology distinct from your patent, and devoid of the legalese and cruft that fills up a patent.