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One could make a pedantic argument that a battery powered anything can use nuclear, but I agree with your point.
by PopeDotNinja 7y ago
One could make a pedantic argument that a battery powered anything can use nuclear, but I agree with your point.
- dredmorbius 7y agoThere's no likelihood of batteries scaling to certain uses, such as large long-distance air transport, or marine shipping. Most trucking as well. We either stop using those transport modes, or revert to prior forms (wind), or wire-based electrical systems (rail, canals, trucks).
- wffurr 7y agoOr make fuel. There are all sorts of ways to make carbon neutral diesel and jet fuel. They just aren't economic compared to pumping it out of the ground unless the externalities of burning virgin fuels are priced in with regulation.
- dredmorbius 7y agoGood point. I've been excited by fuel synthesis technologies, though they've proved difficult to develop at scale. A Google X Project tried and failed.