It’s a cool idea. They have apparently figured out how to create diesel fuel from CO2 and water.
My only questions are:
1. How much will it cost to produce this fuel?
2. Will burning this diesel fuel not contribute to the emission of greenhouse gases that are causing climate change?
You got it.
I’d rather see the continued development of electric vehicles but if this technology helps then great.
Last weekend's
NYTimes Magazine included a reference to Audi's success in their piece on carbon-capture, and made the same point you raised.
Where that could put us ahead is by
removing CO[SUB]2[/SUB] from the air to make our fuel, instead of
adding CO[SUB]2[/SUB] by burning fuel made from Carbon newly dug out of the ground where it had sat without danger for eons. If all we then do is put the Carbon back out into the air via the tail-pipe, the process would be a wasteful farce, but Audi's hope is that newer diesels will 'scrub' the Carbon out of their exhausts. Then it could be re-manufactured into fuel by adding O[SUB]2[/SUB] and H[SUB]2[/SUB] from water, or buried.
Assuming they're right, electric is still the way for cars to go. Scrubbing emissions from a few highly regulated generating stations seems a way safer bet than a) junking all the bad old diesels b) expecting millions of independent owner-operators to keep their ultra-high-tech diesels tuned and scrubbed up to scratch.
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PS: Howcum we're even talking about this fake-news that seems to have appeared only in the lying MSM? Where are the earnest and truthy sources with the real story?