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Bill Gates has teamed up with a physicist and oil sands magnate for a project in which CO2 is extracted from the air and converted to clean diesel and petrol. In what is being described as “mechanizing photosynthesis,” arrays of giant fans are used to extract pure CO2, which can then be synthesized into a usable mixture through a process called Air to Fuels (A2F).
The hope is that the combination of direct air capture (DAC), water electrolysis and fuels synthesis used to produce liquid hydrocarbon fuels can be made to work at a global scale, for little more than it costs to extract and sell fossil fuel today. This would revolutionize the world’s transport industry, which emits nearly one-third of total climate-changing emissions.
The hope is that the combination of direct air capture (DAC), water electrolysis and fuels synthesis used to produce liquid hydrocarbon fuels can be made to work at a global scale, for little more than it costs to extract and sell fossil fuel today. This would revolutionize the world’s transport industry, which emits nearly one-third of total climate-changing emissions.