A company called Carbon Sciences is developing a breakthrough CO2 based gas-to-liquids technology that is purported to transform greenhouse gases into liquid portable fuels, such as: gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. The company is developing what they believe is a highly scalable clean-tech process to produce liquid fuels from both naturally occurring and human-made greenhouse gas emissions. The raw material for the process can be recycled or harvested from industrial sources such as: natural gas fields, refinery flare gas, landfill gas, municipal waste, or obtained from natural sources like algae and other biomass. Carbon Sciences is banking on the fact that the abundant supply of inexpensive greenhouse gas will allow them to produce large and sustainable quantities of liquid fuel and thus reduce the amount of oil pumped out of the earth. If successful the gas-to-liquid solution could provide an immediate source of traditional fossil fuels without a major investment in new infrastructure, technologies and lifestyle changes.
The technology’s next phase? Carbon Sciences must partner with a major CO2 emitter and complete their pilot program, which will reveal if this technology is the real deal.
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The less “traditional fossil fuels” we have, the better.
The quicker our lifestyles change, the better.
So you take greenhouse gases, convert them to traditional fossil fuels which we burn and add…. greenhouse gases.
Bzzzzt! Thumbs down.
It is important to remember that it is not the mere existence of CO2 which is the problem, it is that we are producing far too much. This technology uses as a feedstock CO2 that would otherwise be emitted into the atmosphere and “recycles” it into usable portable fuel. The use of Methane instead of crude oil addresses energy independence and national security, eliminating the need to send $1B per day to countries that don’t share our values. This equals significant job creation domestically. Anyway you look at it, this technology checks off a lot of boxes (even green ones) and powerfully addresses energy and climate concerns.
“usable portable fuel”
THAT IS DIRTY! That adds ghg.
Any way I look at it, that’s what it comes back to.
The use of ALCOHOL instead of crude oil addresses energy independence and national security….
Replace the word with the one I did and the rest of your post makes sense.
That said, anerobic digestion is fine as a process in and of itself.