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To make combustible fuel from solar energy is crazy. The cost of such fuel is almost zero from the large oil reserves: the price you see is carefully calculat
by aj7 7y ago
To make combustible fuel from solar energy is crazy. The cost of such fuel is almost zero from the large oil reserves: the price you see is carefully calculated to maximize profits and to politically permit less efficient suppliers to survive and profit acceptably: but any synfuel business can be wiped out any time. At a point where we are trying for a renewable electric ecosystem, to take its product, and turn it inefficiently back into fuel is ununderstandable. By the way, if electricity is free, please send me some.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> To make combustible fuel from solar energy is crazy. The cost of such fuel is almost zero from the large oil reserves ...if you ignore the costs that exist in the form of environmental externalities, a behavior which is increasingly being recognized as an existential threat to human civilization.
- aj7 7y agoI see, in other words, you have a method of capturing the externality costs, and using them to protect this fledgling enterprise. Look, I understand externalities. I understand 415ppm. I live in Hollywood, FL, and see flooding at high tides, with my own eyes. But the proposition here is to turn solar electricity into combustible fuel. And waste at least half of this energy in practice, because we have some "valuable" investment in fossil fuels infrastructure. Again, are you kidding me?