Methane is the simplest hydrocarbon. It should be possible to create a home appliance that takes raw methane as input and outputs gasoline. There's your tech idea /g/, now go out and invent it.

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dumb frogposter, not only do you not fuck with big oil and live to tell the tale, (Stanley Meyer, Tim Ogle, Julian Brown, etc.)
say the invention does take off, you are entrusting normalfags with a petroleum synthesizing appliance right in their homes

And where are you getting that raw methane from?

>>106112882
right here
>BRAAAAAAAP

>>106110863 (OP)
I have a better idea. What if we took water and CO2 and created hydrocarbons out of it? This would change the world.

>>106110863 (OP)
>a molecule synthesizer
In theory it shouldn't take a whole lot of energy to make small quantities of stuff or that much time. Enzymes do it a lot faster and all they need are materials and about 37 degrees of heat. You can do it in a petri dish. All you need is to genetically modify bacteria from scratch to produce it, create the genes to code the enzymes that do it. We do not have a precise enough method yet to do these things.

>>106114299
>create bacteria that can eat H2O + CO2 to produce gasoline
>escapes lab and spreads everywhere
>destroys the world by eating CO2 faster than we can create it, polluting every source of water and food with oil, killing off all plants, etc
Genetic modification is the great filter, we will all die suddenly because one egghead had a real cool idea for the ultimate green bio-organism.

>>106114299
>>106114352
Just take a thermophile bacteria, create an enzyme that works at those high temperatures(will probably be more efficient too), if it escapes the lab it dies from cold.

>>106110863 (OP)
I have a machine at home that takes in raw carbohydrates and outputs methane (my butthole).

>>106114373
>indian saar, PhD notices massive flaw in nobel prize winning bacteria in that it cannot survive in the wild, thus limiting its CO2 removing applications
>orders some CO2 + H2O to oil genes from a CRISPR manufacturer
>makes inserts for e. coli
>releases it in the wild to "save the world" for guaranteed good nobel prize every time

>>106111329
Qrd?

>>106114631
the names were provided, look them up