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SpaceNut

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Re: Synthetic or Natural Fuel Produced using Solar Power

Consider that I pay 0,22 a kwhr that's not bad if we got the same distance from battery stored electrical.

SpaceNut

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Re: Synthetic or Natural Fuel Produced using Solar Power

New process brings commercialization of CO₂ utilization technology to produce formic acid one step closer

tahanson43206

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Re: Synthetic or Natural Fuel Produced using Solar Power

For SpaceNut re #152

Thank you for finding and posting the report about a trial commercialization scale test in South Korea to make formic acid from CO2 captured from the air.

For all ... ? can formic acid feed into a fuel manufacturing process?  Apparently (per the article) formic acid is a commercially useful chemical.

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SpaceNut

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Re: Synthetic or Natural Fuel Produced using Solar Power

Here is another article on Banyu's method, on the other hand, purports to be low-energy and low-cost. Startup develops process powered by sunlight and seawater to remove CO2 from air: '[It] can actually be energy positive'

global energy demand continues to grow rapidly and we meet it mostly with fossil fuels, human emissions of carbon dioxide could reach 75 billion tons per year or more by the end of the century. Atmospheric carbon dioxide could be 800 ppm or higher—conditions not seen on Earth for close to 50 million years

Developing carbon-capture batteries to store renewable energy, help climate

One of these new battery types maintained its capacity for 600 hours of use and could store up to 10 hours of electricity.