Global reliance on petroleum and the foreseeable reduction in fossil fuel availability presents scientists with a unique challenge and an opportunity to develop new processes and technologies to meet current and future energy demands. These processes and technologies must also minimize their impact on the environment, specifically carbon dioxide emissions. Since carbon dioxide is readily available from the air, seawater, and as a byproduct of many industrial energy-producing processes that include gas, oil, and coal power plants and FT processes, it could serve as an abundant chemical feedstock for production of energy-rich hydrocarbons such as jet fuel. Processes that utilize CO2 from the environment could be envisioned as CO2 neutral.
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