Making Liquid Fuels From Sun and Air

GregLaden writes: There is promising research on converting atmospheric CO2 and water, using sunlight as a source of energy, into burnable liquid fuels. This is not a carbon capture technique because the CO2 ultimately returns to the atmosphere after burning the fuel, but it could allow the production of enough liquid fuel to allow the rest of the motorized economy to switch to mainly electric. There are key uses for liquid fuels, even if most 'engines' become electric motors. The science of how this works is fairly interesting, and a recent writeup in Science gives some of the details.

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Slashdot is fucked

[DiamondGeezer]

When you have a stupid pie-in-the-sky story promoted by an eco-loon uber-troll like Greg Laden and posted by Samzenpus you know you'll get #cuethedeniers and a lot of hippy tree-hugging shit from people who can't math.

That's why Slashdot is dying, because the people who could have argued and actually known what the engineering and economics of solar power and renewables only happens because of massive Government subsidies which are paid for by taxes on the poor, have left never to return.

Slashdot banned the diversity of its audience and now has only an echo-chamber left who don't know about Greg Laden's reputation as an troll and his support for any whackjob sciencey-fictional non-technology is well known and solidly debunked in the hard scientific literature (by which I don't mean Science Mag).