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Phoenix5869 t1_j10fg4n wrote

Is this a good idea? We should be decreasing our emissions…

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Arts251 t1_j10tj2b wrote

>the e-fuel plant will use wind power to electrolyze water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is then combined with carbon captured from the air or industrial sources to synthesize methanol, which in turn can then be converted into longer hydrocarbons to be used as fuel. The synthetic e-fuel is a direct drop-in for pump gasoline

Seems like it will be close to carbon neutral, or perhaps even carbon negative if you factor in the offsetting amount of fossil fuel no longer needed to be extracted and combusted for the energy.

it's using the three R's.

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FearlessCloud01 t1_j10i8gy wrote

I guess it's better than using more fossil fuel to power the plant...

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Phoenix5869 t1_j10iky2 wrote

But wont this just add more emissions to the atmosphere?

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FearlessCloud01 t1_j10jzsd wrote

It will. But using power from a wind turbine is still better than a gas/coal plant.

The gas would probably be extracted either way. And that requires power. But it'll be worse if the required power comes from more gas instead of wind or something else that's non-polluting.

This way, at least the overall emissions is reduced. So, for example, if the total emissions had 10-20% due to the gas used to create the electricity/power for the processing, at least there will a 10-20% reduction in the total emissions.

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