– Why can’t we just ‘produce’ gasoline, like synthetically?

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– Why can’t we just ‘produce’ gasoline, like synthetically?

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Synthetic jet fuel (SAF) is being used in some aircraft today. It’s expensive (about $1.1 per liter compared to jet fuels’s $0.5 per liter) but it comes from sequestration of CO2, so it’s a carbon cycle that consumes and releases CO2 in roughly the same amounts. Although it displaces CO2 from the surface, where the fuel is created, to the atmosphere, where it affects weather/climate, it’s considered a good first step.

BTW, the next step is electric planes, which is coming, although slowly… hydrogen cells are lighter than batteries for long-haul transports, like for air and sea. We already have small planes that use batteries, today.