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welcome to the cotkey ride home for Wednesday, May 19th, 2021.

I'm Jackson Bird, a promising method for producing carbon neutral gasoline from basically thin air.

The strange story of the very first ransomware attack,

and the surprisingly long history of bizarre ice cream flavors.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Scientists in Germany have figured out how to make carbon-neutral gasoline out of thin air.

Dubbed e-fuel, the substance is currently being produced via a prototype machine at the

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Southern Germany. The project P2X is backed by 18 research

institutions and 27 industrial firms, including Volkswagen and Shell,

and is part of the larger Copernicus Project, which is helping Germany reach its goal of a

carbon-neutral economy by 2050. If scaled up, e-fuel could be the key to reducing emissions

from aircraft, machinery, and possibly even gas for cars.

But like the many sustainable alternatives being explored right now, scale and cost will be the big hurdles.

But first, the science.

Roland Dittmeyer, who leads the project, compares it to photosynthesis.

Quoting the New York Magazine's Intelligencer. The process begins with a module built by Climworks of Switzerland

that extracts carbon dioxide from the ambient air. The device blows air over a filter that

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