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>>10875600
I can see NIMBY & BANANA groups making it a problem to build these in Western Countries, but China certainty wouldn't give a damn, and would certainly start building them for both their domestic use, and offer "loans" to third world countries to build & maintain them, much like they are doing with their coal power plants in Africa right now. India, Indonesia, Pakistan, ect would also probably want to build them and not let politics (aside from their usual corruption issues) get in the way.

China would also probably start setting up synthetic fuel plants; 4 cents kw/hr electricty lets you make synthetic fuel that isn't much more expensive than regular dinojuice, and right now China's biggest strategic weakness is their reliance on imported oil. And the Chinese government seems to actually want to make China more powerful, rather than the leadership of many western countries that are willing to cuck their nation for ideology and/or personal gain.

>>10854789
There is this Canadian outfit working on this right now, using hydropower. Carbon Engineering is their name. They have a small pilot plant up & running, and claim that the full size plant they are currently building will be able to produce synthetic fuels for about $1 USD per liter; if cheap fusion becomes a thing then that would obviously drive the price down even more. This sort of thing will be extremely handy for use cases that don't lend themselves to electrification, like long-haul aircraft.

>>10752391
Alternatively, we develop new technology that lets us travel without producing CO2 - for example it is possible to use renewable or nuclear power to create carbon-neutral synthetic fuels that existing aircraft can use. This is completely doable with existing tech; the issue is scaling up the process & getting the price of the fuel down.