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> It's been seemingly impossible to motivate the world to switch to alternatives to fuel. The impossible part is we have yet to discover a density/cost compari
by SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
> It's been seemingly impossible to motivate the world to switch to alternatives to fuel.
The impossible part is we have yet to discover a density/cost comparison to hydrocarbons.
No one is going to “switch” to something that isn’t as good as the existing option. Couple this with “but electric cars!” that often are still just coal powered.
Plastics, military, actual logistics, China, we’re going to burn every drop of oil. We all better hope someone is working on sequestering options!
- invisible 5y agoIf you're taking what I said to mean "of course individuals should just do better," I definitely didn't mean to imply that. Exactly the opposite, actually. It's a bunch of smaller decisions that are hampered by new technology and lack of economies of scale, among many other compounding factors that result in poor consumer/business/utility/government choices (for the environment). I think sequestering may be an important part of that, but it's still new technology.