Derricks in the Sky
No more oil in the ground ? No problem, get it in the sky. Since now bacteria could extract our next fossile fuels from carbon dioxide, let’s just imagine what it will be a few decades from now. Flying oil platforms, with huge turbines to get the air in, and reject it once the CO2 is extracted. Big air tankers, transporting the fuel to refineries on ground level, all the workers in these air extracting stations. So many plots which could take place in there. Steampunk and Cyberpunk will most likely have here a very exciting background scenery, and maybe new stories to be told.