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Plastics (a petroleum product) are not useless.

• dzhiurgis 2y ago
  Ok that's fair. Can they made by oil byproducts only or can it be eventually synthesised from CO2?
  • actionfromafar 2y ago
    You can synthesise basically anything from CO2 and hydrogen. You can get syn-crude which can the be treated the same as regular crude. If we had "unlimited" electricity we could make basically anything from air and water.
    • throwaway173738 2y ago
      I’d just like to support this by saying that this is what plants and micro-organisms do. They make many of our chemicals from air and water.
  • adastra22 2y ago
    Yes, it's just cheaper to pump it out of the ground in a nearly ready-made state.