[Layke1123]

I see carbon nanotube tech and become immensely skeptical. I am under the impression that anything carbon nanotube still cannot be done at scale, and the article is very light on that part of the process. Following the rabbit hole leads to http links (in 2022?) and various publications from science journals I am unfamiliar with.

Does anyone else get the smoke and mirrors vibe from this or am I just being overly skeptical and not reading thoroughly enough into the literature provided?

If this tech is true, I can see the HUGE potential it has.

[scotty79]

It's not a key element of their process. You could just distill it and humanity had millenia of expeirience in scaling and optimising that process.

[Layke1123]

Distilling doesn't make it more economical than traditional refining though, according to their whole position. Boiling involves ALOT of energy compared to passive membrane separation.

[scotty79]

They still have a zero carbon liquid fuel so you can't compare it directly to refined fuel.

Fossil fuels should be eventually taxed into oblivion. Even at current taxation level their distilled fuel would be competitive if tax exempt for example in Europe.

[Layke1123]

I didn't. The comparison is that this is claimed to be cheaper than normal fuel extraction from the ground. But that relies on tech such as the permiable membrane developed from CNT, which AFAIK, no major breakthroughs have been made.

It's a bit like investment madness, in which investors are being swindled because no one is doing their due diligence to vet the tech and instead throwing money in a blind panic in FOMO.

[ncmncm]

Depends whether he actually delivered the thing in 2018.

[Layke1123]

Exactly? Did he? Looking at the site that is linked or quoted to doesn't exactly instill confidence. Is no one else drilling down and looking into all these details like me, or do they simply research it and then move on rather than comment leaving all the arm chair scientists to pontificate based on a flashy website?

[ncmncm]

It really only matters if you are thinking of investing in his company.

There are dozens of others working toward the same or similar goals. If his company does not succeed, another will.