I’ve heard of hydrogen being used as an alternative energy source, and solar energy is another alternative, however has anyone considered using carbon? The main issue with climate change is carbon emission, so is it possible for carbon to be used as fuel?
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Yes, it can, that’s what generates a lot of the carbon emissions.
I imagine what you’re suggesting is to take the co2 of the atmosphere, separate the oxygen from the carbon atoms, and then use the carbon as fuel. the problem with this is that when you use any carbon-based sustain as a fuel you will generate co2, you may think that you end up with a balance where you use the fuel to create the thing you later are going to use as fuel, the thing is that this would require 100% efficiency, which isn’t possible. It would take more energy to collect and separate the co2, than the amount of energy you will get from the fuel collected, then when you use that fuel to generate energy you will lose a lot of it in the form of heat (carbon is not an efficient energy source). So at the end of the day you will end up with more co2 than when you started.
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