Large Tesla Battery

agesilaus wrote:

time2roll wrote:

2oldman wrote:
I don't understand why extracting carbon from co2 and burning it makes any sense.

It is CO2 neutral. Like growing a tree and then burning it. Net CO2 effect to the atmosphere is zero.

Carbon then ends up being a storage media for energy similar to hydrogen. Both cases end up using the sun's energy to create the stockpile.

Well not really, that ignores what may be a very large industrial plant and the power required to run it that would be needed to convert CO2 to fuel. Also it ignores the manufacturing processes and the transportation required to build the plant, move all the supplies and fuel, support all the people needed to run the plant and so on.

And don't forget all the many tons of jet fuel required to move the upper crust climate warriors to all their various climate conferences in their inefficient private jets.

It's anything but energy or carbon neutral.

There is no point in burning carbon to extract carbon :R
And yes once you have the carbon fuel it still needs distribution.

This is why solar and battery is so compelling except to just use the power directly instead of storing as carbon or hydrogen.
JMHO