Business methods of renewable hydrocarbon-based fuel

A business process where water vapor, which is produced by said pumped-ion, electrochemical engine, or by fuel cells, internal combustion engines or other gas expansion devices that produce work, is not exhausted, but is instead condensed and held in a reservoir until it is removed therefrom, and is reused for the production of a renewable hydrogen-based fuel or for any other use or purpose having value.

The business process of claim 11 where a purchase of fuel, or a license or other right to use a quantity of fuel or the hydrogen and/or carbon contained therein, is directly or indirectly reduced by the monetary or other value of a quantity of hydrogen recovered from fuel as water, said fuel purchase and purchase discount, refund, rebate or other fuel-byproduct-credit realized being done in one or more transactions at one or more business entities.

The business process of claim 11 where recovery and recycling of water vapor is done in a manner that yields “water vapor credits” similar to said “carbon credits” deriving from the Kyoto Accord, which is intended to reduce greenhouse gases that cause global warming, water vapor being a greenhouse gas, and where said “water vapor credits” thereby yielded are sold or are otherwise converted to monetary or other value, which might include, but is not limited to, selling said “water vapor credits” to purchasers of a vehicles that do not recover and recycle hydrogen as a fuel byproduct in the form of water, or where said conversion eliminates a requirement to purchase said “water vapor credits.”

A business process where the value of land is increased by advertising or otherwise communicating its suitability for installation of an array of heliostats that reflect sunlight onto one or more solar-powered, liquid-hydrocarbon-fuel synthesizers, or devices derived therefrom, the increase in value of said land directly or indirectly deriving from the economic value of the fuel, renewable fuel, or other product that might be produced by solar-powered, liquid-hydrocarbon-fuel synthesizers, or a use in combination with said heliostat array, when suitability for a dual use derives from lower ground surface temperatures or an increase in the availability of water that might result as a consequence of the installation of said solar-powered, liquid-hydrocarbon-fuel synthesizer or synthesizers and surrounding heliostats.