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If you're going to convert it into methane and burn it you'll make a fuel cell's ~37% round trip efficiency look massive. turning it into methane to burn it is

If you're going to convert it into methane and burn it you'll make a fuel cell's ~37% round trip efficiency look massive. turning it into methane to burn it is trying to solve last century's problem. People need way to stay warm not things to burn.

wffurr 3y ago
I think their point for syngas (or better yet synthetic liquid fuels) is that solar will be so cheap that the efficiency won't matter.
- hkt 3y ago
  Except that efficiency really does matter right now as energy demands are increasing globally