Monday, October 6, 2014

The Liquid Carbon Challenge

In addition to reducing how much fuel gets burned, cutting the climate risk from gasoline and other liquid fuels requires balancing their CO2 emissions by removing additional CO2 from the air in locations other than the transportation sector. 

Options for addressing carbon dioxide emissions from liquid transportation fuels

It's easy to take for granted just how important liquid fuels are in everyday life. Gasoline, diesel and jet fuel remain crucial for transportation. Petroleum fuels are the world's most widely used form of energy and rank second to coal as a source of global CO2 emissions, a situation unlikely to change for at least two decades. Although some worry about peak oil, in reality the world is not about to run out of fossil hydrocarbons that can be turned into convenient liquid fuels at an affordable price.