Renewable diesel generated via TCP is similar to
other liquid fuels with respect to its physical properties and combustion performance as demonstrated by the table below.
Not exact matches
In the one case, it is replaced
with coal - based
liquid fuels and in the
other with renewable resources, such as wind, solar, or nuclear power.
An example of what rocketeers call a pintle engine, even to a lay observer it is brilliantly straightforward,
with one high - pressure coaxial
fuel injector to mix rocket - grade kerosene and
liquid oxygen instead of the hundreds of smaller injector holes used in
other rocket engines.
In addition to the biocrude, the
liquid phase can be treated
with a catalyst to create
other fuels and chemical products.
But now, researchers have taken a more sizable jump
with solar panels, creating a hybrid device that uses a combination of catalysts and microbes to convert 10 % of the captured solar energy into
liquid fuels and
other commodity chemicals.
But unlike old Jaguars
with two gas caps, one is for
liquid fuel, the
other for electrons.
So, if you could create
liquid hydrocarbons that are compatible
with gasoline cars, then the adoption cycle would be a lot easier than switching over to electric or hydrogen or some
other type of
fuel for cars.
One exception has been some use of
liquid natural gas (LNG) and
other fuels for fleets of buses or delivery vehicles, although not substantially for privately - owned ones, and the use of corn - derived ethanol mixed
with gasoline in proportions up to 10 per cent ethanol («gasohol») in some states.
The idea is that you can use methanol as the primary raw material because it is the simplest
liquid fuel to make via gasification, then you make
other fuels with the methanol like DME, gasoline or mixed higher alcohols.
Ethanol plus all the
other alternative
liquid fuels represent our experiments
with how we will deal
with the enduring problem of depleting finite and non-renewable fossil
fuels.
The bionic leaf is able to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen and then
with the help of hydrogen - loving bacteria, produce
liquid fuels and potentially many
other products.