Beyond any greater dialogue about the relevance of this tech, at any scale, in mitigating our impact on the climate, I simply like the idea that this allows for

Beyond any greater dialogue about the relevance of this tech, at any scale, in mitigating our impact on the climate, I simply like the idea that this allows for local creation of hydrocarbon liquid fuels in remote locations. Given the amount of energy required to shift energy around the globe, it makes sense to develop systems that can act independently of the greater fuel economy. It also (I think?) allows us to keep using existing ICE tech for years to come, which no matter how utopianistic one gets about electric drives, is an insurmountable reality.