Thanks. So the part where it's at 63% efficiency, does that account for everything including compressing the CO2, bubbling into water, pumping that past the catalyst, and extracting and storing the accumulated ethanol? Or is that accounting only for power being applied directly to the catalyst?

Hey folks, I'm looking for a simplified, explain-it-like-I'm-five version of this. You make this cheap catalytic sheet, expose it to CO2, give it a x watts of electricity, and it produces x*.63 watts of ethanol? Is that right? Does the CO2 have to be concentrated like from a power plant or vehicle exhaust or is atmospheric CO2 enough?

people talk about plane crashes all the time, too. but that doesn't inspire confidence in buying an airbus or boing.