Can they turn lead into gold too?
Ich bin ein kerosiner.
Because politics and truth never mix, prices are the most honest data available for estimating the total greenhouse gas emissions. It's trivial to track down where "green" energy pollutes more: just follow the money.
It's possible to grow oil on the free ocean using genetically optimized algae. That's where all the energy in fossil oil originally came from. The main trick is how to harvest the dispersed energy cheaply before the bacteria do. Floating AI robots will eventually make it economical to farm 70% of Earth's unused surface.
Germany will soon have planes dropping out of the sky at the fastest rate since the Battle of Britain. Zing!
Look for one or more of the airliners using this fuel to appear on “Air Disasters” in the near future.
Right when economies ought to be investing in ways that societies can adapt to and mitigate effects of “climate change” the green-industrial-empires are getting nations to raise their costs for energy, by trillions, just for chasing CO2, and diluting the capital that would be better spent elsewhere.
Because no matter how “green” Germany gets, or California or anywhere in the western world, it will not change the fact that the total accumulated CO2 in the atmosphere will continue to increase just on the contributions of China, India and the less developed world. And worse. Even if they could take the most dramatic CO2 related changes now, it would be 100 to 200 years before the atmospheric level of CO2 would peak and possibly afterward gradually, very gradually reverse.
But if instead societies started investing now in the means of adapting to and mitigating effects of “climate change”, instead of chasing CO2 by making all energy more expensive, then no matter what happens societies would be better prepared to deal with whatever changes come.
Full disclosure: I am not an alarmist on “climate change”. However using the very same “science” of the alarmists, it is clear their “solutions” deny critical elements of that science and they ignore those “solutions” will eat up money chasing CO2 and leave everyone unprepared for their own predictions because their chase of CO2 will not stop what they predict - based on their own “science”.
wild fantasy. BTW buried in the last sentence of the article is reference to “stagnating growth of wind turbines” on which this whole boondoggle depends. Germany is at the point where wind turbines are wearing out and are not being replaced. The whole energiewende is falling apart and no one will face up to reality.
There is no free lunch with energy. Where will they get the electricity to make their soy boi fuel?