Re: woke-global-climate-change-bullcrap
"They're not a finite resource. So look up the Sabatier and Fischer-Tropsch processes. Both can make synthetic fuels. F-T was used by both Germany and S.Africa to produce fuel when they were sanctioned.
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"Fossil" fuels are indeed finite and limited. That doesn't mean that "hydrocarbon" fuels are. The advantage of fossil fuels is the eROI. Even though crude oil requires refining into fractions that fit their purpose better, the energy in compared to the energy out makes them most attractive. Synth fuels don't do as well. Coal only needs to be collected up and sent somewhere to be ground and set on fire. Coke requires more processing but has a very specific use.
"On the plus side, we might get fusion working. Or politicians may remember why the Age of Sail gave way to the Age of Steam."
Mainly speed. That's being touted today the same way only the speed increases come at a much higher cost. Elon babbles on about point to point rocket travel and the news is fixated on everything "hypersonic". Virgin Hyperloop One has dropped ambitions to put people in vacuum tubes and send them to their destinations like inter-office memos in an air tube. Now they will concentrate on being able to send cargo faster than a jet from Alice to Bob. Perhaps they'll figure out that the cost of the system is too much for the times when companies really need to move items that fast. I used to get component parts from a supplier via "rail deferred" and it was very inexpensive compared to other shipping methods. All it took on my part was some planning which is expected that one do when operating a manufacturing company. JIT doesn't work very well for a company that doesn't have billions in revenue.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
