Porsche’s synthetic gasoline factory comes online today in Chile
- Way back on episode 265 (Feb 2021) we talked about this announcement from Porsche.
- Production
- 34,000 gallons (130,000 L) a year
- 14.5 million gallons (55 million L) a year by 2024
- 145 million gallons (550 million L) a year by 2026
- Wind power to electrolysis water into hydrogen and oxygen
- The hydrogen is then combined with carbon captured from the air or industrial sources to synthesize methanol
- Then be converted into longer hydrocarbons to be used as fuel
- Recycling CO2 in the air
- Is this the future of current Internal Combustion Engines?
- Direct drop in for normal gasoline
- “Carbon Neutral” way to run your classic car
Chip manufacturing equipment sales record in 2022
- Record fab constructions have driven total semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales to cross the $100 billion mark for a second straight year
- Chips Act is $280 billion.
- China, Taiwan and Korea are projected to remain the top three destinations for equipment spending in 2022.
- Most of this money is going towards Wafer Manufacturing Equipment with a focus on wafers for logic / active components like microcontrollers
Why The Computer Company Raspberry Pi’s New Hire Caused A Social Media Firestorm
- Hired an ex–police officer, Toby Roberts, as its maker-in-residence.
- “I was a Technical Surveillance Officer for 15 years, so I built stuff to hide video, audio, and other covert gear”
