That's wasted energy, not excess energy. If we're going to invest any resources into doing something productive with it, it will be towards doing something prof

That's wasted energy, not excess energy. If we're going to invest any resources into doing something productive with it, it will be towards doing something profitable. Who's going to invest a ton of money into infrastructure that doesn't pay anything back? And I don't see how gas flaring has bearing here. If it's not profitable to capture carbon fuel that's right there, in the form a widely traded energy source - why on earth would it be profitable to burn it, to power a generator, to extract CO2 from the air, to turn it back into carbon fuel? You just end up back where you started. Surely it's easier to simply build a plant that can handle higher pressure surges, and ship the gas as-is. But it's not profitable.