On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:30:21PM +1300, LizR wrote: > On 25 February 2014 12:20, John Mikes <jami...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Liz, I will sign up for your 101 chemistry class. > > > > Sadly not my strong point, as I'm sure you realise. I just know that car > exhausts produce CO2 and water vapour (plus a bit of lead etc) so I'm > guessing one can in theory reconstitute these substances back into petrol, > using a suitable amount of energy, catalysts etc. (If plants can do it, I > figure we should be able to. Surely human ingenuity can match plants' ?! > Maybe not...)
Actually, principle, we should be able to surpass plants in efficiency. Plants are only about 10% efficient, IIRC, and the best artificial photosynthetic cell to date is only about half that. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
