Getting anything at that concentration out is… generally not easy.
Doable! But not easy.
That it’s chemically low reactivity makes it even harder.
Plants have spent billions of years evolving to do it, and from an energy perspective aren’t very efficient at it.
Unless we want to burn even more oil trying to power the process or just make a tiny dent in it, we’ll need to not only figure out a somewhat efficient way to do it, but also figure out how to generate a massive amount of power without burning oil to power it.
Literally .0441%
Getting anything at that concentration out is… generally not easy.
Doable! But not easy.
That it’s chemically low reactivity makes it even harder.
Plants have spent billions of years evolving to do it, and from an energy perspective aren’t very efficient at it.
Unless we want to burn even more oil trying to power the process or just make a tiny dent in it, we’ll need to not only figure out a somewhat efficient way to do it, but also figure out how to generate a massive amount of power without burning oil to power it.