Foulwind .

The world is always gonna need hydrocarbons. They're super energy dense, they're fun to burn, easy to store, they make cool sounds. To make hydrocarbons you need two things: Hydrogen and Carbon. Hydrogen you can get from water with electrolysis. It's hugely inefficient, but solar is so cheap and overprovisioned on sunny days that hyrdrogen is basically free many days in New Zealand (when the spot price goes to zero). Carbon is much harder to get and expensive. Go ask Garage Project, carbon dioxide is expensive as shit. Which is weird, because everyone drives down the motorway throwing away all this valuable CO2. Now, you can't get everyone to drive around with a colostomy bag collecting their car farts, so we just dump all our carbon into the sky like the shitting in the proverbial Thames, so we need to filter the sky to get that co2 back. Then we mix that co2 with the hydrogen at 600 degrees and lots of pressures, run it over some nickle and bing bang boom you've got watery methanol - slap that through a distillation column and you've got expensive fancy e-methanol to sell to Maersk or any other shipper that wants to sail to Europe. I keep going backwards and forward on whether to try and raise the 600m of debt to convert Waitara Valley to e-methanol, or just build little skids that you can stick out in a back paddock and it sits there brewing methanol. Work in progress.