Carbon sucker

[Alan V]

This could solve few problems

I've heard about the progress of carbon capture and storage, and even about the progress in creating new fuel from carbon capture, from other reports. It would indeed be wonderful if it was all true.

However, this particular report glossed over at least two important points. First, it claimed that fuel created by this method would cost the same as ordinary fuel. This is highly unlikely anytime soon, if at all. Only if we instituted a carbon tax, or stopped subsidizing fossil fuels and heavily subsidized renewables instead, would that likely happen soon. Second, not all electric cars cost $50,000 as the spokesman said. Prices for batteries have been coming down, and will likely drop much more in the 2020s, at least according to the projections I have read. If that happens, people will replace their internal combustion cars with electric cars over time, because the latter will be cheaper to operate as well as more efficient.

So the economics is very important, though that's not the only issue. There's also a question of timing. We are now at the point that we need to make the transition so quickly, within the next 20 or 30 years, that we will likely have to apply multiple renewable strategies simultaneously, because each will take time to build up. CCS will have to be a part of our efforts, but so will electric cars, wind power, solar power, and many other proven and economic options.