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Re:Climate Engineers Sucking Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere by collyw on Thursday September 07, 2017 @10:00AM (#15191897)
But converting it to "useful fuel" just means that the fuel will be burned and converted back to CO2, no?
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Re:Climate Engineers Sucking Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere by marcosdumay on Thursday September 07, 2017 @11:40AM (#15192854)
Yes. If the electricity source does not emit any (why would you ever do this with an emitting source?), you get to use liquid fuels in a carbon neutral way.

If you convert it into plastics, it's eventually a bunch of CO2 captured into a landfill.

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