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Too bad nobody can figure out a way to move fluids efficiently across land or seafloor. Impossible problem to solve.
by Scoundreller 3y ago
Too bad nobody can figure out a way to move fluids efficiently across land or seafloor. Impossible problem to solve.
- tonyedgecombe 3y agoInterestingly 40% of all cargo carried on ships globally today is oil, gas, coal and other fossil fuels. https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/any-fossil-fuel-phase-out-deal-at-cop28-must-include-global-shipping-commentary/ https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/any-fossil-fuel-phase-out-...
- marcosdumay 3y agoI really didn't expect "Panama channel bottleneck" to be one of the problems we can solve with renewables.
- mschuster91 3y agoContinental pipelines exist but need a significant amount of power to operate the compressors along the path. As for subsea pipelines: it's hard enough to lay these alongside the same continent, i.e. in geologically stable and relatively flat areas such as the North Sea or the Gulf of Mexico... but no one has even attempted to run anything larger than a fiber cable across the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.