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I’m not sure about the economics of it, but I’d rather drive a car powered by synthetic gasoline made from pulling carbon dioxide out of the air. No new CO2 combined with no restrictions on range & quick refueling times sounds like a win. I still don’t know where people will plug in all of these electric cars.

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The economics are such that it probably won't work out. EVs are >85% efficient from wind turbine to movement. Making synthetic fuel is at best 40% efficient from electricity->fuel and the ICE only translates <30% of that to movement. We probably don't have enough room for turbines and solar panels to produce the necessary power.

Ehh...we get a stupid huge amount of sunlight from the sun daily, and the benefit of synthetic fuel is that it's a lot easier to store long term then electrical energy in batteries.

I think the main issue is that it's a lot easier to convert diesel's to run on alternative fuel oils then it is to get gasoline vehicles to do the same.

If you can devise a way of synthesizing gasoline from CO2 in the atmosphere that doesn't require a huge amount of solar energy and/or a few million years, you'll be a very popular person.

It's a matter of fighting against the laws of thermodynamics.

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