– Why can’t we just ‘produce’ gasoline, like synthetically?
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Am chemical engineer in petrochemical business:
We can do this and research into this actually ongoing to scale it up. By using green hydrogen from wind and solar farms, combined with co2 from a technology called direct air capture we can create long carbon chains via the Fisher-Tropsch process.
This can be entirely green but is currently still in development to become feasible. Moreover, the required energy is far higher than the output making it economically infeasible at this time. Basically we would need an abundance of sustainable energy.
The main benefit to doing this is the fact that you can create a high energy density liquid that is already widely used in automotive, naval, and, most importantly, aviation while being carbon neutral.
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