Unlike traditional production methods, this works in a cycle and doesnt require extraction from underground. Fuels are usefull because they carry large amounts of energy at low weight/volume. It’s a vastly superior storage than lithium batteries.
Those type of efuels are inefficient and expensive. Especially when we can make use of the electricity directly, without stupid conversation methods. There might be the odd edge cases here and there, but this is not going to be a "sustainable" alternative to fossil fuels.
It’s “sustainable” as in “we can keep producing methane even when oil fields are empty”, not as in “methane does not produce greenhouse gases when burned”
Important distinctions. Fortunately there are lots of other renewable innovations to celebrate. I like to believe we are getting closer to the solarpunk future humanity deserves!
For anyone down voting, how many species have humans caused to go extinct? Is our wellbeing worth the permanent deletion of every other species on the planet? Fuck humanity.
If it's getting all of the carbon for that methane from atmospheric carbon dioxide then it should at least be neutral. The production should, if that is how it's working, remove as much carbon from the atmosphere as burning the product would release. This would make it a hell of a lot better than fossil extraction since that's taking carbon not currently in the atmosphere and then releasing it in to the atmosphere
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