<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Eugen Leitl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org" target="_blank">eugen@leitl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 07:48:40AM -0700, Adrian Tymes wrote:<br>
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Eugen Leitl <<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org">eugen@leitl.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> > One does not simply synthesize gasoline</boromir> Particularly,<br>
> > if you want to fill a large gap almost overnight.<br>
> ><br>
> > Look into costs and time and material and energy input<br>
> > for a plant, then multiply by the number required.<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> Would you happen to have a convenient source for said costs<br>
> and time? A quick search didn't find any, but I may have used<br>
> the wrong terms.<br>
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It can be tricky to find. Here's an article with a few<br>
numbers:<br>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/business/energy-environment/sasol-betting-big-on-gas-to-liquid-plant-in-us.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/business/energy-environment/sasol-betting-big-on-gas-to-liquid-plant-in-us.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0</a><br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not quite the numbers I was looking for - but it does suggest the<br></div><div>technology is not well developed enough yet that the numbers<br>are understood. Thanks.<br></div></div></div>
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