This is an easter egg in The Sims 1 (2000). It comes up after playing with a family for over 100 in-game days, and shows each person involved in the development of the game.
My phone is an iPhone SE 2nd gen. It's much more ergonomic and I can use it with only one hand, typing text included. Previously I had an iPhone 6S, same screen size (4.7″).
Other iPhone models are giant walkie-talkies for me. They need one hand to hold them and another to type text or slide the screen.
but still making methanol from syngas. Two attractive routes though are just using methanol or blending methanol into gas and turning the methanol to dimethyl ether.
I dunno if it is really practical but I like this image of this personal fuel synthesizer
Methanol is pretty good on its own in gasoline-capable engines if the firmware was right and there were no components in the fuel system sensitive to "pure" alcohol.
It just physically gives the lowest mileage per gallon compared to other alcohols, which still all give shorter range per tank compared to plain hydrocarbons. This is not really that big a deal on the road but for aviation it can make all the difference, so that would have to be where it makes sense to process all the way to a synthetic hydrocarbon fuel. Or if there was actually surplus energy, more energy could be stored by processing the alcohols into lower-oxygen-content higher-energy-density liquids. On a per-tank storage basis too.
Regardless of less energy per gallon, methanol and ethanol do burn with higher octane ratings than most premium gasolines.
Plus in case of fire, alcohols burn with a blue flame too faint to see in sunlight so 15% hydrocarbons are added which would result in a yellow flame instead. That's why the M85 and E85 are only 85% alcohol.
I have seen some renewable naphtha that smelled pretty sweet but like ordinary petroleum naphtha, is not a drop-in replacement for finished gasoline since the antiknock rating is way too low. But naphtha of some kind still makes up the bulk of gasoline blendstocks which are then enhanced with more costly higher-octane hydrocarbons and often 10% ethanol too to barely meet specifications for consumer gasoline. After running it through the analytical lab this renewable stuff was clean clean and I would have to estimate as a liquid it was way less toxic than the natural organic virgin straight-run naphtha obtained from crude oil. And the virgin sweet petroleum naphtha is concentrated from "sweet" crude by distillation without depending on any chemical reactions, and it gags you a lot less than the catalytic naphtha which has been chemically or physically "cracked" into different nasty-smelling hydrocarbons that did not exist naturally within the crude oil to begin with.
It is truly remarkable how ‘dirty’ fractionated hydrocarbons are from crude, but it makes sense considering the absolute chaotic chemical soup that is crude oil.
On the plus side, I read your comment like a sommelier critiquing the latest wine - my mental imagine was you lightly sniffing and then sipping the latest syngas.
‘A strong note of toluene, with a remarkably clean and sharp benzene aftertaste, with an earthy finish reminiscent of the best Texas light crude.’
This is wrong. DotNet uses packages.lock.json explicitly to support the case where you want to be able to lock transitive dependencies that are specified with a range value, or several other edge cases that might warrant explicitly declaring versions that are absent from csproj or sln files.
The McDonalds in my city replaced human cashiers for touch screens and the experience is awful. The purchase flow feels like a maze, to make you add unnecessary items into your cart. And it takes 5 minutes to finish, while it took 30 seconds before, just talking to the cashier.
Also, it's disgusting to touch a screen that other people touched it before.
