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Old Nov 20, 2016 | 10:25 am
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Originally Posted by airsurfer
No I am not violating these laws. It costs energy to make synfuel as energy to be used plus the losses in the process has to be input. And I think that over the longer term (decades) I think it will be economically feasible to use renewable energy for powering this process. The sources are mainly water and CO2, so actually one is recycling CO2. Mankind will be forced to do this for survival on this planet.
On the environmental cost, I agree. On the economic and/or energy cost, I suspect it will cost more than 100% of energy produced. The question is if the solar or whatever renewable energy can be put to better use.
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