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There is a plethora of alternatives. Synthetic fuels and nuclear energy are well established. bio-fuels is another alternative (though it might not scale).


> Synthetic fuels and nuclear energy are well established.

Yes, and they reduce CO2 emissions.


How?

A kg of fuel should have roughly the same CO2 emission regardless of how it is produced?

The thing it that synthetic fuels are cyclic. We collect the emitted CO2 again.


> How?

Like this:

> The thing it that synthetic fuels are cyclic. We collect the emitted CO2 again.


Yes, you are focusing on the entire life cycle.

This is a bad argument, as you can employ the same argument with fossil fuels.

Fuels emit CO2. we can produce fuels by sequestration.


> as you can employ the same argument with fossil fuels

No you can't. "Let's burn oil/gas/coal and then re-capture all the CO2 back" is not something that you can do feasibly, economically, and at scale.




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