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The Future of Fuels
The only thing that could possibly make sense would be to use direct air capture or to secure carbon from a bio-based source. A bit of systems thinking, however, shows that even this makes no sense. Take emifane. By the time you've gone to the cost of securing your carbon, why not simply sequester it? Then you could just deliver plain old fossil gas to the importing country along with a carbon credit if needed. That would be identical from a climate perspective and vastly cheaper. What about methanol? This can and must be made in future using clean hydrogen,. It would be easy enough to make it where hydrogen is cheap and export it - but this will only