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Reneweables includes hydroelectric.  For all the publicity about wind and solar, which are growing, NG is growing even faster.

perhaps we could get Badgerfan to design more dams

17 deg here over nite,today in the high 30s, feels like that's doing an about face with the wind

gonna be in the low 60s here

golf weather!

alas, I'm headed to Minneapolis for a convention

but, gonna be pretty warm there this week

early April here is glorious

means the winter is finally over

golf courses open

usually too wet to play

we need rain

once in a while we get wet heavy snow

Inside Twelve‘s Bay Area lab, a tank of carbon dioxide captured from a nearby refinery sits next to a dishwasher-size machine that converts the pollution into ingredients for products that are currently made from fossil fuels—from plastic to jet fuel. “In theory, it can become anything that you can make from petroleum,” says chief science officer Etosha Cave, who is working with cofounders Kendra Kuhl and Nicholas Flanders to commercialize technology that Cave and Kuhl developed at Stanford University. The startup’s carbon-transformation process uses a metal catalyst and renewable energy to break CO2 and water molecules into smaller atomic bits, and then re-forms them into new chemicals that can be used in manufacturing. Twelve has already partnered with the Air Force to make jet fuel from CO2, and it’s worked with Daimler and Procter & Gamble to demonstrate that it can recreate ingredients needed to make car parts and Tide, respectively. “We see ourselves doing CO2 conversion as a service, as well as enabling the CO2-made material by embedding within supply chains,” Cave says. The new chemicals are a one-for-one replacement, so Twelve’s customers can lower their carbon footprints without affecting product performance. The startup raised $57 million last summer as it works to build out its process to industrial scale. Cave and the team believe that it can ultimately compete with fossil fuels on cost, and if it can replace petrochemicals at a large scale, the company can meaningfully cut global energy emissions.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90721844/twelve-transforming-carbon-pollution-jet-fuel-plastics

The problem with CO2 as a starting material is that it is very low in the "energy well", relative to say methane.  It's pretty easy to convert methane into "stuff", not so with CO2, you have to add quite a bit of energy to CO2 to drive it to another material.  That Delta G component is fixed, and large.  In this case, your starting material is lower in energy than your product, so you start with Z and are trying to get X and Y.