Lots of short term vs long term issues here. Some applications like air travel really rely on hydrocarbons, with no practical substitutes available. Refining te

Lots of short term vs long term issues here. Some applications like air travel really rely on hydrocarbons, with no practical substitutes available. Refining technology to produce fuel by capturing atmospheric carbon is helpful even if current technology is less efficient than fossil fuels. Surely practical biofuel is more achievable than practical fusion in short/medium term.