Petrol from air: Will it make a difference?
Found on BBC News on Friday, 19 October 2012
Just as plants need sunlight to pull off the trick, Air Fuel Synthesis, the firm profiled in the UK's Independent newspaper, need to use good old-fashioned electric energy to pull off theirs.
In Iceland, Carbon Recycling International opened a plant at the end of 2011 drawing waste CO2 from a power station, with capacity to produce five million litres of methanol per year.
That sure would be a better way to store large amounts of energy than using batteries.