How much energy (cost of) is needed to drive this process? If energy positive net game this is good. If not it is just liberal mental chemical masturbation.
I can make any hydrocarbon (plastics, garbage, oil etc.) into anything I want. The real question is it a net gain or loss in energy and is it a cost effective synthesis.
Political correctness will never defeat thermodynamics and entropy which are actually one and the same. Entropy always wins until the universe runs backwards. It does not.
I forgot to add this. Each and every chemical reaction results in an increase in entropy unless energy is inputted to the chemical reaction at the expense of enthalpy of another reaction. Thus less Gibbs free energy is available. The importance of such is are we trading a limited amount of enthalpy for unlimited entropy. There is no free lunch in thermodynamics.
Life was much simpler when I lived in the West Texas desert and the swamps of South Louisiana. I should have stayed there. I foolishly became educated. Life was so simple in the desert and swamp. I loved it.
“How much energy (cost of) is needed to drive this process?”
At 428°F, not much.....................