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Here is a link to the article: https://newatlas.com/co2-water-hydrocarbon-fuel-uta/41976/

That article was Feb. 2016 3 years a 9 months ago.

So what progress has been made if any and/or what interest in what they were doing has there been in the last 3 yrs 9 mo. time.
What US Patents has the research produced. What is the current status if known. Have you actually spoken to any of the people who did that research to find out what's what and the reality of how the promotional articles shopped to every media outlet they coUld find were received?

There are 10s of thousands of little one time funding research projects that never come to anything
If it was a dead end non-starter and the answers are none and it was a flop generating little interest, no further funding, and no progress has been made since---why and what does that say? Interesting but no cigar?
Just a job for researchers that is over , done, finished? Time to find something else the get funding for to keep the paychecks coming. A way to make a living.

Actually a similar fate goes for Patents. Ninety-seven percent of all patents never make any money.
Too many inventors and entrepreneurs are more concerned with protecting ideas than determining if that idea has a potential for market success. Thousands of dollars are spent and years wasted waiting for a patent to file. And what’s the final result? Too often, just a framed certificate that hangs on an office wall.

 

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Thanks for the nostalgia of the 90's toxicity I now recall. don't bother responding, I'm leaving now.

 

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Here is a link to the article: https://newatlas.com/co2-water-hydrocarbon-fuel-uta/41976/

That article was Feb. 2016 3 years a 9 months ago.

So what progress has been made if any and/or what interest in what they were doing has there been in the last 3 yrs 9 mo. time.
What US Patents has the research produced. What is the current status if known. Have you actually spoken to any of the people wh did that research?
There are 10s of thousands of little one time funding research projects that never come to anything
If it was a dead end non-starter and the answers are none and it was a flop generating little interest, no further funding, and no progress has been made since---why and what does that say? Interesting but no cigar?
Just a job for researchers that is over , done, finished? Time to find something else the get funding to keep the paychecks coming? A way to make a living.

Actually a similar fate goes for Patents. Ninety-seven percent of all patents never make any money.
Too many inventors and entrepreneurs are more concerned with protecting ideas than determining if that idea has a potential for market success. Thousands of dollars are spent and years wasted waiting for a patent to file. And what’s the final result? Too often, just a framed certificate that hangs on an office wall.

I watched the video and it's an interesting idea. Essentially Fischer–Tropsch synthesis tweaked with a photo catalyst to split water for the required hydrogen and to split CO2 for the CO needed. The problem is the catalyst. TiO2 is uniquely effective in this role but it depends on UV light. Unless you can find a photo catalyst that will give equal results using lower energy photons this process will only be useful for turning Venus into the rocket fuel depot for the solar system, with orbiting synthesis 'factories' using the abundant solar UV and the readily available CO2 from the planet itself.

 

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Apparently, the nickname "N2" was an acronym for, Nutcase squared. lol