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Besides fuel for transportation, the following make up a large use-case: blast furnaces for smelting steel and making coke, cement-making, ammonia synthesis, cr
by slothtrop 4y ago
Besides fuel for transportation, the following make up a large use-case: blast furnaces for smelting steel and making coke, cement-making, ammonia synthesis, creating plastics. Electricity by itself accounts for near 25% of fossil fuel use.
None of those can be viably replaced right now. With very large transpo, there seems to be a lot of investment in hydrogen but skepticism surrounding it too, including for the environment.
- adrianN 4y agoIf we could replace those things right now we would already have done so. That is no argument against investing into technologies that can replace those uses. And I count furnaces, cement making, and electricity production as fuel, since all you need for the process is heat.
- slothtrop 4y ago> That is no argument against investing into technologies that can replace those uses. It never was. It's a suggestion that near-term abatability e.g. 27 years is untenable. Policy and projection qua climate can't hinge on the promise of hypotheticals. It's possible to leverage nuclear more for an accelerated timeline, but the greens keep trying to block progress. Can't have your cake and eat it too is the way I see it.