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Sounds like some kind of Fischer–Tropsch process. Starting with CO2 sounds like it would require an obscene amount of electricity though.


> Starting with CO2 sounds like it would require an obscene amount of electricity though.

It could still be worth it, depending on how/when it was made and how it interacted with the grid. There's an increasing problem right now of too much solar supply during the day and not enough power storage; projects like this could be used to soak up excess power and it would still come out carbon-neutral.


Germany is paying other countries to absorb spikes. Anything that creates value instead looks like a win to me.




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