This and technologies like it sound like something that could literally save the planet. If this sort of thing could be used for trucks, it could be used for trains, ships and stationary engines.
As far as I can tell, the approach involves recycling the CO2 into other fuels and I assume eventually burning everything in a fashion that creates other pollutants but I assume much less CO2. I assume that at greater cost, you could just sequester the CO2 also.
> This and technologies like it sound like something that could literally save the planet.
The planet itself will be fine, it's the humans that are at risk from global warming.
However I don't think this is good enough, we need to go carbon negative which means electrification, clean energy sources and CO2 capture/storage (CCS) at large scale, and a whole lot of other changes. Unfortunately there are a couple of countries in the world that will piss in the well for the rest of us in this respect so I don't have much hope of actually fixing the problem.
In EU. Not much, this is after all something reasearch in Switzerland that has already done other CO2 extraction research, despite scorn and cynicism by misguided ecologists.
I think the time for this tech has finally come. There used to be an argument that if we talk too much about these, emissions habits may never change. Now it is clear that simply cutting down emissions will bring us to +2C degrees at best. Every additional tech we can have to cut down emissions or extract CO2 from atmosphere is welcomed.
This and technologies like it sound like something that could literally save the planet. If this sort of thing could be used for trucks, it could be used for trains, ships and stationary engines.
As far as I can tell, the approach involves recycling the CO2 into other fuels and I assume eventually burning everything in a fashion that creates other pollutants but I assume much less CO2. I assume that at greater cost, you could just sequester the CO2 also.
So what's stopping this?