FUEL FROM CO2

Whether that’s solar engineering or cloud seeding to reduce incident solar radiation, or reforestation, or carbon capture and sequestration from burning fossil fuels, or ocean iron fertilisation or putting huge mirrors in space, humans think we can engineer our way around any issue.
And for the most part, we can. We just need to choose wisely so we don’t make matters worse or break the bank.
The best most direct strategy, that has the least bad side-effects, is to remove carbon directly from the atmosphere and make something useful out of it – like fuel – that would further lessen the burden on the environment.

The United States Nuclear Navy wants to do just that. And they can use the excess energy from nuclear reactors that already exist on their ships. They can even separate hydrogen from water using the copper-chlorine process, a thermochemical process for which one step needs heat at exactly the core temperature of a nuclear reactor (530°C) on board an aircraft carrier. For that matter, CO2 can also be extracted from seawater.

Increased atmospheric CO2 from hydrocarbon use has also acidified the oceans in a crisis separate from global warming.

So wouldn’t it be nice to remove some of that and remake hydrocarbons that could be used to displace petroleum products like gasoline that helped cause this in the first place

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