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Solar power wasn't economically viable once, nor was Wind power. Sucking fuel out of the air anywhere you like has to be more viable than sailing out to sea an
by roryisok 4y ago
Solar power wasn't economically viable once, nor was Wind power.
Sucking fuel out of the air anywhere you like has to be more viable than sailing out to sea and building a huge rig to drill underwater for pockets of gunk that you then have to refine. Imagine an airport that creates its own fuel instead of needing constant resupply.
- palata 4y ago> Sucking fuel out of the air anywhere you like has to be more viable than [...] Pretty sure it absolutely isn't.
- roryisok 4y agoobviously not, right now. but if this tech can be scaled up it would be. yes, it's not a certainty. but solar power was once seen as only useful in space where you couldn't run a diesel engine. Then it got more efficient, and cheaper, and now it is cheapest form of energy per MW on Earth
- palata 4y ago> but if this tech can be scaled up it would be. It's not that it is "not a certainty". It actually seems very unlikely that this could work. > and now it is cheapest form of energy per MW on Earth Thanks to fossil fuels, that have been used at pretty much every step of the process of building and transporting the solar panels. And then it only works with good weather. Not that solar is completely bad, but it does not look like it will be the replacement for fossil fuels. It is not enough to be cheap as a marginal source of energy in a world with cheap fossil fuels. At some point it would need to work on its own...