Breakthrough promises $1.50 per gallon synthetic gasoline with no carbon emissions
 

UK-based Cella Energy has developed a synthetic fuel that could lead to US$1.50 per gallon gasoline. Apart from promising a future transportation fuel with a stable price regardless of oil prices, the fuel is hydrogen based and produces no carbon emissions when burned. The technology is based on complex hydrides, and has been developed over a four year top secret program at the prestigious Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. Early indications are that the fuel can be used in existing internal combustion engined vehicles without engine modification.

According to Stephen Voller CEO at Cella Energy, the technology was developed using advanced materials science, taking high energy materials and encapsulating them using a nanostructuring technique called coaxial electrospraying.

“We have developed new micro-beads that can be used in an existing gasoline or petrol vehicle to replace oil-based fuels,” said Voller. “Early indications are that the micro-beads can be used in existing vehicles without engine modification.”

“The materials are hydrogen-based, and so when used produce no carbon emissions at the point of use, in a similar way to electric vehicles”, said Voller.

The technology has been developed over a four-year top secret programme at the prestigious Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, UK.

The development team is led by Professor Stephen Bennington in collaboration with scientists from University College London and Oxford University.

Professor Bennington, Chief Scientific Officer at Cella Energy said, “our technology is based on materials called complex hydrides that contain hydrogen. When encapsulated using our unique patented process, they are safer to handle than regular gasoline.”

http://www.gizmag.com/breakthrough-p...issions/17687/

and this is the very last time you will hear of this project...

never gonna happen

Remember when they said...

Time for a big boom to happen...

Sounds to good to be true? I hope it is true, what a wonderful solution to oil. Being in the car repair business, this would be a perfect scenario.

Professor Bennington and CEO Voller are about to enter a world of shit.

I sure would like the promise to be true but the article reassembles the parts of the technology that skips the realities.

Number 1 is what will be the source for the reduced Hydrogen. (reduce referring to the redox chemical characteristics). You will have to have a separate energy source to secure the Reduced Hydrogen even in a Hydride state. Water is not the energy source for reduced Hydrogen though it is a ready source for the material Hydrogen but in the highly oxidized state. The energy to reduce, split apart water into Oxygen and Hydrogen gas, has to come from something else. Solar, Hydrocarbon, Nuclear?

Number 2 the present Hydride they are compounding as beads that can be "poured" into a car does not meet the Thermodynamics or the rate of Hydrogen delivery to power an internal combustion engine. I think it is more suited to a storage process that can then be used to power fuel cells in production of electricity for electric cars except

Number 3 it isn't presently reversable so that it is a consumable product and therefore will have disposal problems

http://www.cellaenergy.com/index.php?page=technology

Not going to happen, at least in the near future.

Exactly

Or a very dark box under the ground somewhere.

BP will just fork out 50 mil to buy the patten then case is closed.

Riiiiiiiight.

no shit. this idea will be bought out just like every good one before it.

Money and Power are waaaay more important than the advancement of our civilization and getting us off of dead plant fuel. Am i Right? Am I right?

I like this though... $1.50 a gallon would be better on the old pocketbook than the $4-5 we are heading to.

Plus, imagine no more drilling for oil... oil spills... etc.