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mr_worldyesterday at 8:05 PM1 replyview on HN

How does using these the power from your panels to generate natural gas help solve climate change? Unlimited abundant natural gas sounds awful


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lucb1eyesterday at 8:43 PM

Consider where that methane / natural gas is coming from. Their homepage says (with the world's most convoluted hyphen-omitting compound adjective, but basically see the last 6 words):

> March 2024: Terraform completes the end to end demo, successfully producing fossil carbon free pipeline grade natural gas from sunlight and air.

If you take carbon from the air, mix in energy from the sun to turn it into a fuel, then burn the fuel (undoing the reaction), where is the pollution?

There's more efficient ways to solve the climate problem than to install ginormous amounts of gas production, like you can run a heat pump instead of creating methane from that energy, but it's a solution that'll please even the old farts (no pun intended)

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