Crazy New Machine Can Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air

Crazy new machine can make gasoline out of thin air

In 2022, transportation accounted for nearly 30% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Most of that came from ICE vehicles running on fossil fuels. Despite years of hype and investment, electric vehicles still make up just 8% of cars on U.S. roads. For many drivers, switching to an EV is still too expensive, inconvenient, or unappealing. That’s the gap New York-based start-up Aircela is hoping to fill. Earlier this month, the company unveiled a work…

Gasoline From Air. Is it Vaporware?

Popular Science: Today, electric cars make up just around 8 percent of all vehicles on U.S. roads. (Roughly 90 person of vehicles globally still run on fossil fuels.) Most EVs remain prohibitively expensive for the majority of Americans, and they require enormous amounts of critical minerals—resources that, when extracted at scale, pose their own environmental dilemmas. Most Americans also … Continue reading "Gasoline From Air. Is it Vaporware?"