Synthetic Gasoline, Supposedly Could Be $1.50/gallon

[Insomniac]

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.

http://www.gizmag.com/breakthrough-promises-150-per-gallon-synthetic-gasoline-with-no-carbon-emissions/17687/

The article makes it seem simple, but I don't think you can just fill your tank with that instead of the normal unleaded.

[cameraman]

The company web site brings the story back to earth.

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

Still sounds very interesting.

[SteveH]

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 political aspect of this might be even more significant. This would virtually marginalize the Middle East. While their amassed fortune would still be enormous, it would be short lived.

Make it so.

[stroker]

If the creator of the stuff ends up dead then you'll know there's something to it.

[Heeltoe]

The EPA will still mandate that it be blended with 15% ethanol :flame:

[Tifosi24]

If the creator of the stuff ends up dead then you'll know there's something to it.

Or if he ends up with one billion dollars and announces that his idea will never work. Although showing up dead somewhere is the more likely scenario.

[JLMannin]

So, how much oil needs to be burned to produce the energy to make it?