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Re:Directly converting CO2 into a gasoline fuel (2017) by fsh on Thursday March 10, 2022 @08:30AM (#30626657)
You are off by a factor 1000. 80 PWh is 730 billion times 110 kWh.
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Re:Directly converting CO2 into a gasoline fuel (2017) by teamonkey on Thursday March 10, 2022 @08:46AM (#30626798)
Sorry, you're right. You'd need to cover a land area slightly larger than Texas.
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Re:Directly converting CO2 into a gasoline fuel (2017) by iso1210 on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:32AM (#30640363)
Or much less than the Sahara Desert

Of course it's not just solar, throw in geothermal, tidal and wind too

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