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'We' in this context intended to mean 'people discussing alternative energy' not 'humanity overall' I don't often see it brought up, even in discussions of ene
by shuntress 9y ago
'We' in this context intended to mean 'people discussing alternative energy' not 'humanity overall'
I don't often see it brought up, even in discussions of energy storage support for inconsistent energy sources.
- greglindahl 9y ago3 technologies I've seen discussed extensively in the alternative energy context: * Methanol from food sources * Methanol from non-food sources (switchgrass) * Biofuels for aircraft (military and civilian) I can totally believe you didn't see these talked about. But you can find articles in the New York Times on all 3 technologies in the past couple of years.
- shuntress 9y agoI guess we are pretty much at the peak of synthetic oil and it is a dead end in terms of energy storage.
- kurthr 9y agoThen maybe 'you' should look into it since you are very interested in it. Other people already have, and they are not interested in looking into it any more. You can look at NAZI coal gassification efforts, methanol from switchgrass, all the way to efficient Hydrogen generation and storage, but it usually turns out that producing a complex molecule up a large potential gradient is not power efficient (even with the best chemistry and catalysts).