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You could, in a world of spherical cows. We could just as easily say synthetic fuels could power the entire USA if we just scaled it up.
by prottog 4y ago
You could, in a world of spherical cows. We could just as easily say synthetic fuels could power the entire USA if we just scaled it up.
- jeffbee 4y agoMy point is you can’t make that argument. It’s obviously false. You would need millions of the facility in the press release to even make a dent in global liquid fuel supply. You would cover the earth with windmills before you finished the job.
- pclmulqdq 4y agoOn the contrary, if you looked at solar panels in the 1990s, you would think that there would be flying cars before you could scale manufacturing up to fill a good chunk of the southwest US. Only later did people actually make silicon solar panels that could be cheap enough, and it took longer to make them with good enough yield to actually deploy them in large quantity. This technology doesn't seem to have many known scaling limits yet, just processes which haven't been well-researched, so there's no need to dismiss it early.