Whitechapel - Making petrol from carbon dioxide and sunlight Sun, 19 May 2013 01:35:28 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher Making petrol from carbon dioxide and sunlight http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=266&Focus=7054#Comment_7054 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=266&Focus=7054#Comment_7054 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:50:01 -0800 Kosmopolit
Later versions of the process used carbon dioxide rather than coal. Even today, a lot of natural gas is very high in carbon dioxide so its reacted with hydrogen to up its carbon monoxide and methane content.

Anyway Sandia Labs is working on a project to take carbon dioxide and superheat it using solar power to produce carbon monoxide which can then be used to make petrol (amongst other things).

Only catch is they say they're 20 years away from a commercial product.

http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/Sunshine_To_Petrol_Project_Seeks_Fuel_From_Thin_Air_999.html ]]>