A small British firm claimed to have developed a revolutionary new technology that can produce petrol using just air and electricity.
A company in the north of England has developed the “air capture” technology to create synthetic petrol which experts have hailed as a potential “game-changer” in the battle against climate change and a saviour for the world’s energy crisis.
The technology, presented to a London engineering conference this week, works by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the Telegraph reported. The “petrol from air” technology involves taking sodium hydroxide and mixing it with carbon dioxide before ‘electrolysing’ the sodium carbonate that it produces to form pure carbon dioxide. Hydrogen is then produced by electrolysing water vapour captured with a dehumidifier.
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Aman sethi’s a free man wins crossword prize
age correspondent
new delhi
Aman Sethi’s A Free Man, published by Random House, won the Crossword Non-Fiction Book Award 2011 on Thursday night. In his landmark work of reportage, Aman Sethi sets out to understand the life of Mohammad Ashraf, a daily-wage worker in Delhi’s Bara Tooti Chowk. Spending the greater part of five years in the largely empty space between the backpacker haven of Paharganj and picturesque Chandni Chowk, where daily-wage transactions take place, he learns, over alcohol, tea and ganja, the story of Ashraf’s life.
Bringing labour into the narrative of the city, Sethi chronicles the minutiae that make up the lives of the men who are building Delhi: from the boiled eggs, sweet tea, varieties of raw alcohol that can quickly nullify a day’s earnings to secret pockets stitched into clothes.