A diverse team of MIT climate scientists has put two and two together to make five.
By attaching an Aircela carbon capture unit capable of turning air and water into gasoline to a gas-powered generator that produces electricity to run the Aircela, these wizards of innovation have demonstrated a potential solution to global warming that could literally save our roasting planet.
At the moment it takes the Aircela 24 hours to produce a gallon of gasoline, consuming 75 kWh of electricity in the process. (Enough energy to drive a Tesla Model 3 for 300 miles.) And, OK, the generator will burn that gallon of gasoline in two hours, producing 2.5 kWh of electricity. But this is only a demonstration system.
With the backing of a compelling media narrative and a carefully tuned computer model developed by a properly credentialed professor at a prestigious university, any technological dream can be shown to be not impossible. Which means this gift of existential deliverance can only be brought to fruition if the government releases blocked science research funding and provides sufficient commercial subsidies to scale this promise of human survival into production.
Climate denier Dr. Richard Lindzen, caught spreading disinformation about some theory developed by a dead white male called the First Law of Thermodynamics, has been appropriately re-cancelled.
Massachusetts senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey have called for another Trust the Science Conference to bring this golden opportunity to public attention.