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in reply to @NireBryce's post:
I looked it up and found out about Prometheus Fuels, a company whose goal is to capture carbon from the air and then make it back into hydrocarbon fuels which they literally describe as "guilt-free."
now I'm no engineer, but if that takes more than zero energy to do
I guess it avoids some of the environmental damage of oil drilling, if you use non-carbon energy to power the capture process, but beyond that the best it can be is pointless
the "guilt-free" sales pitch is so dispiriting. why does Western society have to be so puerile about these things? everyone's so easy to manipulate by promising feckin' moral absolution. it's like people who think it's okay to use slurs as long as someone gives them "permission". I hate this "civilization" ~Chara
so, its actually pretty close if they aren't lying; direct carbon capture is starting to end up at 95+% efficient for even the non renewables (something about catalytic cracking of the methane byproducts, but that still leaks on the way to the plant...), and the proposed thing is you use it as part of the transition, so burned fuel is, at least, not introducing as much new carbon into the cycle from the ground.
BUT
it's not being marketed that way