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Making fuel out of air and sunshine
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Plants do it. Why not you? In principle it would be possible to combine carbon dioxide from the air with water to create hydrocarbons that could be used to power motor vehicles. Of course it takes energy to do this, so in effect you're just taking another energy source (such as nuclear) and converting it (with a thermodynamic loss) into something you could use to drive your car. But as long as the primary source is not a fossil fuel, you have a truly carbon-neutral way to drive to work, since you'd take just as much carbon out of the air to make the fuel as you'd put back in when it's combusted.
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