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I can't imagine synthetic hydrocarbon fuels being anywhere near cost competitive with either petroleum or bio derived hydrocarbons in the next couple decades.
by danans 4y ago
I can't imagine synthetic hydrocarbon fuels being anywhere near cost competitive with either petroleum or bio derived hydrocarbons in the next couple decades.
Switching long haul trucking to renewable hydrogen would make much more sense, since weight is an issue. Air travel is tougher. In the near term we will start blending waste oil based sustainable aviation fuel. Longer term people have suggested directly burning liquid hydrogen.
The biggest near term CO2 reductions will come from switching to renewables for electricity. We have the tech to make major strides on that front now.
- hotpotamus 4y agoThe site I linked originally has a whitepaper on the economics of the business and thinks it should end up cheaper than conventional fossil fuel drilling. I'm not familiar with bio derived hydrocarbons other than ethanol, but that doesn't seem all that promising from anything I've heard about. The founder left his job as a NASA software engineer to start it up, so he's probably not a dummy. He could certainly be wrong though.