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Whenever wires don't make sense, as is the case for aircraft, synthetic liquid fuels can make sense. In a world where the inputs are free, the inefficiency of t
by jeffbee 1mo ago
Whenever wires don't make sense, as is the case for aircraft, synthetic liquid fuels can make sense. In a world where the inputs are free, the inefficiency of the process is not relevant.
- fragmede 1mo agoPower-to-Liquids (PtL) have air as inputs, but that doesn't make them free. There's a high capex requirement to create the processing plants, and then the energy required to run them isn't free either.
- fsckboy 1mo ago>then the energy required to run them isn't free either i think his point was that if you are in a remote location with solar and or wind power, the power is free because you can't do anything else with it (without transmission lines)
- fragmede 1mo agoSo apparently what you can do with that, is mine Bitcoin. This is a thing that happened. Which is fucked but that's a whole other discussion.