Sustainable Design Update

Green Freedom

Los Alamos National Labs reports they have created a way to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and make the building blocks of a liquid “green” fuel they call Green Freedom™.

From Los Alamos:

Green Freedom™ for carbon-neutral, sulfur-free fuel and chemical production

Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a low-risk, transformational concept, called Green Freedom™, for large-scale production of carbon-neutral, sulfur-free fuels and organic chemicals from air and water.

Currently, the principal market for the Green Freedom production concept is fuel for vehicles and aircraft.

At the heart of the technology is a new process for extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and making it available for fuel production using a new form of electrochemical separation. By integrating this electrochemical process with existing technology, researchers have developed a new, practical approach to producing fuels and organic chemicals that permits continued use of existing industrial and transportation infrastructure. Fuel production is driven by carbon-neutral power.

More after the jump. Green Freedom Los Alamos

I would like to know how many units of energy are needed to produce a unit of energy in your gas tank.  I’m sure the engineers at Los Alamos have taken the time to calculate this.

Via: Inhabitat

Very Cool Photo: Andrew Saliga Via Flickr

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