I'm not a scientist, so I have no standing to question scientific assertions. But still.

Carbon Sciences, based in Santa Barbara and Cambridge, England, says it is developing "... a breakthrough technology to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the basic fuel building blocks required to produce gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and other portable fuels."

Though, of course, I can't expect they'd publish their formuli on their homepage, and if they did, I probably wouldn't understand them, but even so, their website seems fairly shy on details.

Also, if anyone were on the verge of transforming one of our greatest scourges — CO2 — into two of our biggest solutions — for global climate and declining fossil fuels, wouldn't that be super-big news?

For now, it seems worth pointing out either way: It could be big, or it could be a big joke.