Yeah, that sort of makes sense. Hydrocarbons are carbon + water + energy package, and burning them gives out the energy which you can use for scrubbing the atmo

Yeah, that sort of makes sense. Hydrocarbons are carbon + water + energy package, and burning them gives out the energy which you can use for scrubbing the atmosphere, provided you don't exhaust carbon byproduct into the atmosphere, which is really what got us into this mess in the first place.