Technology

Its pretty simple.

Hydrocarbons + oxygen + ignition releases energy, H20, and CO2.

Energy + CO2 + H20 can synthesize hydrocarbons.

There is plenty of interesting research how to do the latter - but it doesnt change the fact it just reverses a process we currently do by the tanker ship full. Why would anyone do that at scale?

It cant have a large scale application until we basically have free energy from some other source - and at that point, synthetic fuel is probably still a terrible way to store and use energy for pretty much everything except jet airplanes.

This means if we get fusion working, we could have enough energy to scrub the atmosphere of carbon and turn it back into gasoline.

Could literally have our cake and eat it too but that would mean that oil execs would be too poor to molest kids without repercussions

Is there nothing KDE cant do.

Cool, although I’m assuming it requires pure CO₂ and would need to be combined with some other carbon capture mechanism.

My terminally online brain initially saw the first image in the thumbnail as a 3d version of the mental gymnastics meme for some reason

I need to go and walk in a park or something