All of a sudden usual suspect BMW has invested in a Prometheus fuels. This is the BMW that was part of diesel gate but didn't get hammered as hard as its co-colluders for some reason. Prometheus fuels is a synthetic fuel maker (a bit like the Reich when it was pressed in WWII- uses a nice Swiss Octogon type logo too.) It is amazing in its own way. It is a room temperature process that sounds relatively solid state that will make ethanol and even a gasoline equivalent at 50%-60% efficiency. Really it sounds like a way to make negative plastics much more than carbon neutral fuels.
It has a couple massive problems. One is even if wind and solar are used it would use about a gallon of fresh water per person or more (maybe much more) to replace gasoline use in the US. Fine if it were using salt water but if it were the desalinization would presumably require a ton more energy when it can only break even with fossil fuels as is. The idea that pressure should be put on people's fresh water to allow it to take longer to transition to electrics powered by green energy is idiotic. It is also lame to use this to keep the price higher for green energy when efficient use would lower it much quicker to help kill of toxic 'natural' gas quicker. It is part of the bait and switch long tail pipe scam. You see that unfolded in many fradulent phases. Way back when Exxon discovered the climate disaster in the 70s they started trying to go for the light cigarette version of fuels. Deodorize natural gas, get the lead out of gasoline, use MBTE to stop the acid rain but put in cobalt. If people don't know they are breathing it they won't whine about being forced to smoke tail pipe and we can scam along a lot longer... Diesel gate was the same kind of bait and switch where they lied their arses off and were totally belligerent and righteous about it. Hydrogen was the same idea- idiotically thinking they could force a premium (its far worse than anything else in energy usage) and keep the subsidies going , claiming they were green hiding the tail pipe in the fossil fuel smoke stack farther away from town that would just like the lies with diesel gate be providing most of the energy and the actual hydrogen and keep their sunk cost in the liquid fuel transport system from evaporating. Yep, just lie about it like with diesel gate. So this is a marketing scam like light cigarettes sold to teens. It is a bait and switch. And it plays into their idiotic notions of trying to create water scarcity through big thieved and enclosed water. They've already tried this with the poisonous plastic fossil fuel water they ship around on big fossil fuel burning trucks where people spend on dirty water literally contaminated by the plastic fossil fuel based water bottles they've been conditioned to drink out of (not putting money into the up keep of municipal water) much worse in terms of polluting your body when its recycled because you can't get it clean like glass.
The seething terms are already there in BMW's tripe this can delay to the medium term electrics, delay by another decades (so these government tit sucking losers can get a little more free of their sunk costs- or rather the public's fraudulently appropriated sunk costs)... so electrics can be for the medium and long term because gas made today are not coming of the road instantly.
Smart regulators and a smart public and a smart green movement could do the follow with them:
1. Only use of ocean water- no exceptions ever, not ever- unless they want to use aquafoil tech to pull water from the air but that still takes away from local vegetation and ultimately ground water to an extent and is presumably more expensive than desalinization.
2. They can't use any outside source of energy production except what they have purchased and run themselves- so they have to purchase up front all the solar, wind and battery production equipment themselves and make us of what they own. They can obviously never under any circumstances use fossil fuels as an energy source to create their synthetic fossil fuels which is surely exactly what they want to do.
3. They can't add stupid additives or petroleum products to their products- no watering it down.
4. A level of transparency never before seen where there books and proceedings and everything they do is literally open to anyone that wants to know.
5. No importing has to be made local for inspection purposes, no exceptions.
6. Kill switch- any ethical transgression, even the appearance of it equals instant shut down and forfeiture of all assets strict liability on everything and revocation of charter- no waiting shoot first investors can go after managers. This is an industry not even on parole it has made itself into an obvious public enemy, this should really get a treatment worse than the nuclear industry got.
Stuff sounds more viable as a way to kill the fossil fuel plastics industry a lot of its chemical industry which amounts to about 9-10%, good for a way of taking the fossil fuel industry to 0 literal zero- always important when arguing for their literal no future and against any of their present lines of bs. Blue Planet's method of carbon sequestration using concrete and cement seems more viable- it is apparently strongly carbon negative and it uses plastics a seed particles- likely recycled of course take that pollution out of the stream.
It has a couple massive problems. One is even if wind and solar are used it would use about a gallon of fresh water per person or more (maybe much more) to replace gasoline use in the US. Fine if it were using salt water but if it were the desalinization would presumably require a ton more energy when it can only break even with fossil fuels as is. The idea that pressure should be put on people's fresh water to allow it to take longer to transition to electrics powered by green energy is idiotic. It is also lame to use this to keep the price higher for green energy when efficient use would lower it much quicker to help kill of toxic 'natural' gas quicker. It is part of the bait and switch long tail pipe scam. You see that unfolded in many fradulent phases. Way back when Exxon discovered the climate disaster in the 70s they started trying to go for the light cigarette version of fuels. Deodorize natural gas, get the lead out of gasoline, use MBTE to stop the acid rain but put in cobalt. If people don't know they are breathing it they won't whine about being forced to smoke tail pipe and we can scam along a lot longer... Diesel gate was the same kind of bait and switch where they lied their arses off and were totally belligerent and righteous about it. Hydrogen was the same idea- idiotically thinking they could force a premium (its far worse than anything else in energy usage) and keep the subsidies going , claiming they were green hiding the tail pipe in the fossil fuel smoke stack farther away from town that would just like the lies with diesel gate be providing most of the energy and the actual hydrogen and keep their sunk cost in the liquid fuel transport system from evaporating. Yep, just lie about it like with diesel gate. So this is a marketing scam like light cigarettes sold to teens. It is a bait and switch. And it plays into their idiotic notions of trying to create water scarcity through big thieved and enclosed water. They've already tried this with the poisonous plastic fossil fuel water they ship around on big fossil fuel burning trucks where people spend on dirty water literally contaminated by the plastic fossil fuel based water bottles they've been conditioned to drink out of (not putting money into the up keep of municipal water) much worse in terms of polluting your body when its recycled because you can't get it clean like glass.
The seething terms are already there in BMW's tripe this can delay to the medium term electrics, delay by another decades (so these government tit sucking losers can get a little more free of their sunk costs- or rather the public's fraudulently appropriated sunk costs)... so electrics can be for the medium and long term because gas made today are not coming of the road instantly.
Smart regulators and a smart public and a smart green movement could do the follow with them:
1. Only use of ocean water- no exceptions ever, not ever- unless they want to use aquafoil tech to pull water from the air but that still takes away from local vegetation and ultimately ground water to an extent and is presumably more expensive than desalinization.
2. They can't use any outside source of energy production except what they have purchased and run themselves- so they have to purchase up front all the solar, wind and battery production equipment themselves and make us of what they own. They can obviously never under any circumstances use fossil fuels as an energy source to create their synthetic fossil fuels which is surely exactly what they want to do.
3. They can't add stupid additives or petroleum products to their products- no watering it down.
4. A level of transparency never before seen where there books and proceedings and everything they do is literally open to anyone that wants to know.
5. No importing has to be made local for inspection purposes, no exceptions.
6. Kill switch- any ethical transgression, even the appearance of it equals instant shut down and forfeiture of all assets strict liability on everything and revocation of charter- no waiting shoot first investors can go after managers. This is an industry not even on parole it has made itself into an obvious public enemy, this should really get a treatment worse than the nuclear industry got.
Stuff sounds more viable as a way to kill the fossil fuel plastics industry a lot of its chemical industry which amounts to about 9-10%, good for a way of taking the fossil fuel industry to 0 literal zero- always important when arguing for their literal no future and against any of their present lines of bs. Blue Planet's method of carbon sequestration using concrete and cement seems more viable- it is apparently strongly carbon negative and it uses plastics a seed particles- likely recycled of course take that pollution out of the stream.
