The demo plant in Chile’s Magellanes region. (estimates 6,000 hours of high-quality wind in the region each year)
Thee turbines power the entire process, the first step of which is a carbon-dioxide recapture system from Global Thermostats – Fans cycle air through a ceramic honeycomb matrix that—through a variety of processes separate the CO2 from other molecules. (When the final system goes online, HIF expects to scrub 150 kg of CO2 an hour.)
35 percent of the power from the wind turbine is routed to a Siemens electrolyzer that produces 21 kg of green hydrogen per hour through electrolysis. The hydrogen and CO2 is then run through a copper-zinc catalyst to form synthetic methanol that serves as the basis for all the plant’s carbon-neutral hydrocarbon derivatives.
Methanol – familiar to any drag racer – is then put through ExxonMobil’s proprietary methanol-to-gas (MTG) process to transform the alcohol into gasoline, kerosene, or diesel.
The demo plant’s current production is capped at around 90 gallons a day which is earmarked for those stated in previous comment, as well as a rotating fleet of internal test vehicles such as the 991, 993.
A large, full-scale production facility is planned roughly 20 miles south, with 60 windmills providing enough energy to produce 17.4 million gallons of e-fuel for use in South American and European markets. Facilities in Australia for Asian distribution and in Houston, Texas, for North America are also in the works.
Its unlikely it will be available for the domestic market for some years yet. Even then it may only be avaible to certain segments of the market, such as, sports cars, motor racing and classic vehicles.