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In 2008, LANL or ORNL published a paper on exactly that. I can't find my PDF copy, but they were suggesting making use of cheap electricity and waste heat from
by coredog64 9y ago
In 2008, LANL or ORNL published a paper on exactly that. I can't find my PDF copy, but they were suggesting making use of cheap electricity and waste heat from a nuclear plant to create carbon neutral fuels. ISTR they were calculating that it would be cost competitive with gas at $4 or $5/gallon. Probably not something we'll see in the US in the near future, but certainly possible in countries that levy more taxes on fossil fuels.
- philipkglass 9y agoI believe that you're thinking of LANL's "Green Freedom" concept: http://bioage.typepad.com/greencarcongress/docs/greenfreedom.pdf http://bioage.typepad.com/greencarcongress/docs/greenfreedom... They estimated that it required a pump price of $4.60/gallon for gasoline to be economically viable, given their other assumptions. The authors assumed relatively low cost nuclear power from Generation III reactors. But the Green Freedom concept seems like it would also work with sufficiently cheap large scale renewable electricity production.