«Instead, it will be used for greenhouses,
producing synfuels, etc..
Not exact matches
Although such
synfuels may actually increase greenhouse gas emissions, depending on how they are
produced, they will deliver some independence from the tyranny of petroleum.
Oil prices at $ 100 per barrel are already well above the $ 40 per barrel level at which
synfuel producing facilities break even, and even the $ 70 per barrel level that might make carbon capture economically feasible.
At a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide low - GHG - emitting synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for coal
synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are
produced in plants having three times the
synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investment.