Kind of pretty important and relevant:

The main reason why this process isn’t “something for nothing” is that it takes twice as much electrical energy to produce energy in the form of gasoline. As Aircela told The Autopian:

Aircela is targeting >50% end to end power efficiency. Since there is about 37kWh of energy in a gallon of gasoline we will require about 75kWh to make it. When we power our machines with standalone, off-grid, photovoltaic panels this will correspond to less than $1.50/gallon in energy cost.

So basically juat imagine a gas powered generator hooked up to this to power the process of pulling gasoline out of the air.

Ok, see how that’s silly?

Right, now, if you do run it off solar power, then sure! That makes more sense.

Hate hyrdocarbon fuels all you want, they are very good at being dense, portable, and exist in the vast majority of pre-existing logistics infrastructure.

But the thing isn’t magic, it takes energy to convert air into basically a form of liquid energy.

And… you’d probably have to refine it or chemically treat it at least somewhat.

I’m not a chemist, but I am guessing this is the case, if you want gasoline that is just equivalent to what your car would expect.

I mean… its worse than that.

Its definitive proof that we live in an anti-meritocratic society, that is ruled by nepotism and violent and dangerous sociopaths.

Yes, its violence if it goes through a complex system for the violence to happen, is done indirectly.

So yeah, our lives are ruled (and ruined) by utterly incompetent dangerous sociopaths, who will gleefully destroy the entire economy because… they like buzzwords and feeling like they are smart.

We either need to kill these people, or they will kill all of us, just give it a decade.