On 2/25/2014 1:23 PM, LizR wrote:
The great thing about using an energy grid is you can plug in new components (i.e.
different types of generators - nuclear etc) and everything continues to work the same
way downstream.
This is why I'm keen on the idea of extracting CO2 from the air and making petrol, if
possible. No change is required to the energy infrastructure, as there would be with say
hydrogen or electric cars, but it's carbon neutral. We'd get a closed cycle in which the
atmosphere was just a temporary reservoir for the materials needed to make the fuel.
Presumably we'd eventually be able to extract CO2 at a rate that even reduced the amount
of GHGs in the air.
That's essentially what the research on hydrocarbon producing algae and bacteris is trying
to do.
Brent
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