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Anyone wanna take a bet that kwh required to create and process a pound of lignin into the desired format exceeds its useful energy output at all low, medium, a
by kumarski 4y ago
Anyone wanna take a bet that kwh required to create and process a pound of lignin into the desired format exceeds its useful energy output at all low, medium, and high scale?
- danuker 4y agoAdd enough penalties for using fossil fuels, and the market will switch to renewable or synthetic fuels.
- vixen99 4y agoThere's an issue here. 80% of the global sulfur supply comes from removal of sulfur from fossil fuels. Among countless other vital industrial uses without which life as we know it ceases, sulfur is used for making lithium batteries and fertilizer.
- geysersam 4y agoWhat's the issue? Even if oil is the only feasible supply of sulphur, it can still be used for that purpose. Just don't burn it without capturing the exhaust. Obviously this has consequences in form of higher prices. But the alternative leads to global warming.
- catfan 4y ago
- jupp0r 4y agoHow is this a problem? If the energy is gathered via renewables, then why not produce it at 5x the energy it yields when burned airborne?
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoThis would be a problem if it was the kWh of energy that was causing climate change, rather than the carbon. In anything you can electrify, just the electrification cuts energy use by a factor 3 but some things are actually hard to electrify in the short term so cheap green renewables being used to make carbon neutral fuels makes a lot of sense as we have access to lots of cheap energy, and even more as we electrify more and more stuff but have only a limited carbon budget.