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If we make oil from nuclear or solar power using fuel synthesis, we can carry forward indefinitely.

• roenxi 2y ago
  Yeah but we wouldn't do that. It doesn't make sense to pay the energy conversion costs; it is already more efficient to store power in non-oil batteries.
  • Earw0rm 2y ago
    Not true for aviation, where weight and volume are both constraints.
  • jvanderbot 2y ago
    For me, scarcity arguments based on "preferences" don't make a ton of sense, but I see your point. I'd give even odds there will always be use cases for burnable fuels, and almost all vehicles use burnable fuels currently. Sure seems a shorter path to just pull CO2 out of the air and keep moving along as we always have, vs electrifying everything.