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I advise coming up to speed on high school math and science before making this investment. Of course, these people prey upon ignorance, and there’s plenty of that to go around these days.

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This is a scam. How can I be so sure? Because the Earth’s atmosphere is ~400 ppm CO2, meaning that 99.96% of it is something else. There are opportunities to make synthetic fuels out of CO2, but they need to …

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From this: It’s not like you can make food out of thin air. Well…it turns out you can. A company from Finland, Solar Foods, is planning to bring to market a new protein powder, Solein, made out of CO₂, water …

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An old friend asks, “Given the extreme carbon footprint associated with transoceanic cargo shipping, wouldn’t it be better if we built our products here, rather than import them?” The answer is yes, and such a change would also enable us …

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Synthetic fuels refer to those that don’t come from biological processes; they’re made from bringing together hydrogen and carbon molecules to form hydrocarbons via highly endothermic chemical reactions.  Preferably that energy is derived from sources whose off-peak output would otherwise …

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Reader ‎Markus Dirnbacher‎ asks, Sustainable hydrogen – amongst all currently available technologies- will be the only possibility for long term storage of power! Do you agree? No, this is extremely unlikely to happen. Batteries are making great progress, and synthetic …

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Here’s a video on synthetic fuels.  This is an important topic for people to understand, but this particular presentation contains so many misleading claims, that it does more to confuse and misinform the viewer than to elucidate the subject.

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Here’s a note specifically meant for chemist/senior energy analyst Glenn Doty, my go-to guy for questions of this nature.  I thought I’d post it here, since other readers might be interested. Glenn:  Do you mind looking at this for a …

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2GreenEnergy has had a long-running interest in helping a company called Doty WindFuels enter the synthetic fuel market; in fact, they’re on our “clean energy investment opportunities” page.  The company, based in Columbia, SC, has a proprietary multi-step approach that …

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Here’s another monthly installment that I write for The Hedge Connection, where, in this case, I present a short introduction to the subject of synthetic fuels as a viable method of energy storage. I begin with a reminder to Hedge …

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