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This reminds me of one of Peter F Hamilton's book series, set in a world ruined by climate change with a strict ban on fossil fuel use. One of the characters is
by jsnell 5y ago
This reminds me of one of Peter F Hamilton's book series, set in a world ruined by climate change with a strict ban on fossil fuel use. One of the characters is a billionaire who is still being driven around in a Rolls Royce with a combustion engine, since he likes the sound of them or something equally banal. But since he is a good guy billionaire, he gets around the ban by installing a carbon capture system on the car.
I wonder whether that would actually be a viable real world solution, or if the weight and performance problems would from it.
(Oh, who am I kidding. In the real world the Ferrari owning jerks would just disable any such system except for inspections.)
- beambot 5y agoThere are solutions to electrochemically produce gasoline in a carbon neutral way for cheaper pump prices than you get today from digging up & refining oil. https://www.science.org/news/2019/07/former-playwright-aims-turn-solar-and-wind-power-gasoline https://www.science.org/news/2019/07/former-playwright-aims-... Currently being commercialized by Prometheus Fuels. So not crazy.