re: #5 lostlakehiker

No, it won’t be. There are good green ideas, and there are green ideas that are good clean fun and of some theoretical interest, but are practically hopeless. This comes into the second category. Once you have, say, solar energy, it’s more efficient to just run your economy on the electricity than it is to laboriously capture CO2 from the atmosphere and hammer it with enough electricity that you can run the reaction backwards and get fuel.

I’m glad you aren’t in charge of our research efforts with such a clear yet negative ability to predict the future. Tomorrow we could find out that boiled mosquito vomit makes this process incredibly efficient. Who knows. Gotta try shit out.