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by Corazoor 1909 days ago
That is simply not true.

In order to convert elecricity to methane you first have to REMOVE CO2 from the enviroment. If you subsequently burn that gas, you arrive back at the CO2 level you had before the P2G process.

That of course only works out to net zero when you use co2 that was recently captured, like from waste-biogas or trees.

The big problem with fossil fuels is not directly that they release CO2, it is that they release CO2 that was captured over millenia in the comparatively short timespan of decades.

You can avoid that problem entirely with P2G systems.