---
title: "Machine That Turns Water Into Synthetic Gasoline"
description: "A German company named Sunfire GmbH claims that it has the solution to turn water (H2O) and CO2 into hyrdrocarbons liquid such as kerosene, petrol and synthetic diesel"
date: "2014-11-23"
modified: "2014-11-23"
authors:
  - name: "Matthew Lincoln"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/justmatt"
url: "https://futurism.com/machine-turns-water-synthetic-gasoline"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
---

# Machine That Turns Water Into Synthetic Gasoline

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/sunfire-Power-to-Liquids-Synthese_300dpi.jpg>)

- The solution is called the Fischer–Tropsch process
- The solution is a chemical reaction that converts a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen into liquid hydrocarbons
- The company that created the machine says that the system is 50 percent efficient, a percentage that should be increased to 70 percent in the future