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Re:New Record Bid Set for World's Cheapest Solar, Undercutti... by wjnc on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:52AM (#11629199)
This is the best quote imho: "If we can get CO2 from the air at 125 $/t-CO2 then the idea of making fuels at prices of order 1 $/L looks plausible over the next few decades."

It's uplifting to me, both for the high value on a ton of CO2 and the (still) low resulting price of fuel. Solar beats fusion (chance * impact)!

Re:New Record Bid Set for World's Cheapest Solar, Undercutti... by patrickg_zill on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @03:45PM (#11631141)
Solar is fusion-at-a-distance, though...
Re:New Record Bid Set for World's Cheapest Solar, Undercutti... by ThrustVectoring on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:19PM (#11630420)
Yeah, with cheap enough electricity you can run the chemistry of burning transportation fuels backwards, and wind up making our current cars carbon-neutral.
Re:New Record Bid Set for World's Cheapest Solar, Undercutti... by arikrak on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @08:07PM (#11632987)
Also with a really large number of solar plants, maybe the earth would cool slightly?