On 26 February 2014 11:18, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > Well, that's good. I wonder if there is any more efficient way of doing it (or do we have to wait for nanomachines which can grab passing molecules and stick them together?)
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