The US Navy has done similar experiments, with the hope of being able to generate aviation fuel from ocean water.Originally Posted by brutal
The biggest issue is that the process is hugely energy intensive, so you need to have the ability to generate a lot of power on demand. I would expect the process would work if you had excess power capacity, e.g. from a nuclear generator. In order for this to scale to any significant level using wind or solar you'd probably have to build a whole lot more wind and solar generating plants.
I would also expect that feeding in CO2 would likely present challenges as well; it's probably not at a high enough atmospheric concentration to make it economically viable to harvest it from the air. You'd probably be better off harvesting it straight out of the smokestacks of industrial facilities and then transporting it to your clean power generation location.
In short, it's a neat science experiment, but I don't see it being readily scaled to account for a measurable segment of the fuel consumed for transportation any time within the next 50 years.
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