Established
Chemical identities, balanced reactions, conservation of mass and energy, and the need to manage hazardous gases, pressure, heat and corrosive materials.
Climate, fuels + circular manufacturing · P—40
Emission
Transitive
Emission.
CL17 · ongoing open study
Can an output we call pollution become a measured input to another useful process—without disguising energy use, danger, waste or displacement elsewhere?
The work maps possible routes through fuels, electrolysis, batteries, reflux, recovery, carbon conversion, manufacturing coproducts and Bubble Butt capture. Its purpose is to unlock disciplined research across many applications, not to declare one complete machine.
Nothing here authorises improvised experiments, road use or human exposure. Any proposed route must conserve mass and energy, include upstream production, and pass specialist chemical, pressure, fire, electrical, environmental and regulatory review.
The research direction
Do not ask only what comes out.
Ask where it can go next.
Combustion, capture and manufacture are usually examined as separate systems. CL17 asks whether their relationships can be mapped together: a fuel may create motion and heat; an exhaust-control stage may move selected substances into water or solids; those materials may require disposal—or may become qualified feedstock for another process.
Transitive does not mean harmless. Capturing a substance changes its location and form. Reuse is credible only when composition, contamination, energy demand, durability and final destination are measured.
Keep unlike claims unlike
Four evidence classes.
The study deliberately separates what is known, what has been demonstrated in other arrangements, what these workbooks model and what remains a proposal.
Demonstrated elsewhere
Individual processes such as electrolysis, fuel cells, methane synthesis, wet scrubbing, carbon conversion and chemical recycling exist in particular conditions.
Modelled here
Comparative pathway scores, daily-use balances, coproduct screens, Bubble Butt capture cases and 14,400 bounded system combinations.
Proposed
The integrated CL17 arrangements, their control architecture, useful application niches and any claim of net environmental or economic benefit.
What the current models say
The first value is direction,
including where to stop.
1,134 are marked candidate, 2,124 research only, 4,302 incomplete and 6,840 rejected under the present workbook rules. These are screening results, not probabilities of success.
The model is energy-negative after electrolysis and engine assumptions. It therefore treats mixed-gas promotion as a measured research question, not a catalyst or energy source.
The evidence supports beginning with separated hydrogen, controlled wet/reactive capture and full-loop measurements in qualified facilities before any vehicle integration.
Bubble Butt scenarios transfer mass into liquid or solids. Treatment, reuse, regeneration, storage and disposal all remain inside the environmental account.
The author’s view · clearly separated from the evidence verdict
A personal research
perspective.
Of the pathways examined in this study, the one in which I presently have the greatest confidence is the demand-regulated lithium-carbide fuel-release pathway:
Core lithium-carbide fuel-release reactionLi₂C₂ + 2 H₂O → C₂H₂ + 2 LiOH + heat
In this reaction, lithium carbide and water produce acetylene, lithium hydroxide and heat. The acetylene would provide the combustible energy carrier, while the lithium hydroxide could be returned for controlled recovery or regeneration. It may also bind part of the carbon dioxide produced during combustion, forming lithium carbonate and water:
Separate carbon-dioxide binding reaction2 LiOH + CO₂ → Li₂CO₃ + H₂O
Lithium carbonate does not directly produce the acetylene in the fuel-release reaction. It may instead form part of the wider proposed capture, return and regeneration cycle.
In my personal view, this deserves careful investigation as an adaptable pathway for producing fuel when required for appropriately designed or converted combustion systems. It may eventually contribute to reducing dependence on newly extracted fossil fuels, particularly if the carbon, hydroxide, carbonate, water and other outputs can be responsibly recovered through a stationary or depot-based process.
This is not a claim that a complete, efficient or road-ready system has already been demonstrated. My confidence comes from the published research, prior art, chemistry, calculations and comparisons cited in this study—not from a request for personal authority. I may be wrong, which is precisely why the pathway should be tested openly and allowed to succeed, change or stop according to the evidence.
Developing and safely testing a prototype would require facilities, equipment and combined expertise beyond what I can provide alone. I nevertheless believe I can contribute a useful account of how the pathway could be investigated if a larger organisation can provide the people, resources and practical means needed to test what is possible.
“If you have the ‘what’, I believe I can help supply the ‘how’.”
I do not seek ownership, control or exclusive rights over anything that may be discovered. I ask only for the opportunity to contribute, learn alongside others and, if the evidence supports the pathway, take part in building a better future that can be shared.
A field of applications—not one promised product
Fuel, material, capture and manufacture can be tested as connected work.
Station or depot
Separate hazardous chemistry from people and vehicles; meter the complete energy and material balance before considering mobility.
Fuel intermediates
Test whether captured carbon, hydrogen-bearing streams or carbide routes can make useful fuels without hiding upstream electricity and reagent burdens.
Manufacturing materials
Characterise carbon, hydroxides, salts, water and other outputs for purity, quantity, handling cost and genuine displacement of virgin material.
Mobile trim
Consider only narrow, independently controlled functions after stationary evidence exists; do not place chlorine, reactive lithium chemistry or mixed-gas generation onboard by assumption.
Bubble Butt integration
Collect and measure selected combustion outputs for controlled treatment, disposal or qualified reuse while protecting the engine and existing emissions controls.
Research platform
Use the network to generate better questions, reject impossible loops early and expose where specialist chemistry, engineering, regulation or life-cycle analysis is still missing.
Related Green Tank research · Bubble Butt
Capture the output.
Then account for it.
Bubble Butt supplies a separate, staged question: can a low-resistance wet stage collect additional exhaust material without harming an engine or defeating approved after-treatment?
CL17 extends the question downstream. If a controlled test captures carbon-bearing particles, condensate, water or other constituents, can any stream be safely characterised and reused in manufacturing—or must it follow a controlled waste route? The answer may differ for every stream.
Read the Bubble Butt test boundary →A useful next experiment
One bounded loop.
Every burden visible.
- 01
Close one mass and energy balance
Freeze one chemistry, one duty cycle and one boundary. Measure electricity, heat, water, reagents, gas, products, losses and waste on the same basis.
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Begin stationary
Use certified equipment and qualified facilities. Separate hydrogen and oxygen, control ignition, ventilation and pressure, and keep incompatible chemistries apart.
- 03
Test capture honestly
Measure exhaust before and after, analyse the capture liquid or solids, record back-pressure and energy penalties, and identify the final destination of every captured substance.
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Qualify any coproduct
Prove composition, purity, quantity, consistency, handling burden, market need and the material or process it actually replaces.
- 05
Publish the stop as well as the route
Use PASS, FAIL and INVALID TEST outcomes. A rejected pathway is useful knowledge when its boundary and reason are preserved.
Main paper + supporting research
Keep the discovery trail.
The files below are published together so readers can inspect the present synthesis, calculations and earlier analytical stages. Exact repeated uploads were removed; genuine changes in reasoning were retained.
Complete ongoing studyPDF · 1.8 MB↓Editable ongoing studyDOCX · 6.3 MB↓Primary chemistry matrixXLSX · 33 KB↓Supplemental interactive systemsXLSX · 800 KB↓Supplemental investigationPDF · 359 KB↓Editable supplemental investigationDOCX · 102 KB↓Evidence reviewPDF · 334 KB↓Editable evidence reviewDOCX · 61 KB↓Complete deduplicated research packageZIP · 9.1 MB↓
Functional reading order · not claimed dates
Four layers of development.
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Primary chemistry matrix
Species, direct transformations, linked pathways, fuel thermodynamics, research workstreams and source records.
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Supplemental interactive systems
Everyday-use balances, electrolysis and battery routes, reflux and recycle, coproducts, Bubble Butt, captured carbon and the combination explorer.
- 03
Evidence review
A distinct examination of which parts are established, demonstrated, modelled or proposed. Repeated copies of this same review were collapsed.
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Ongoing study
The current 24-page synthesis, with the research programme, decision boundaries, source links and request for specialist assistance.
The ZIP includes a manifest, SHA-256 checksums, the duplicate audit and a list of source-data or verification files named in the paper but not supplied. Nothing missing has been fabricated.
Open research request
Help find the pathway
that closes honestly.
Chemists, electrochemists, combustion and engine specialists, process engineers, materials scientists, capture researchers, manufacturers, life-cycle analysts, safety professionals and regulators are invited to test, correct or reject the work.
Discovery improves when a failed route is not hidden and a useful route is not trapped by secrecy or ownership. The immediate need is not belief. It is a qualified team willing to close one bounded system and publish what happens.
Offer evidence, correction or collaboration →