• sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip
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    19 days ago

    I agree that buying fuel at those prices aren’t economically feasible. But, if we end up in a world where we have far more generation capacity than there is normal demand, that excess capacity might prove to be useful for energy-intensive chemical production, including making fuel.

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      19 days ago

      I suspect that the inherent losses in those kinds of chemical processes will make high speed rail and the higher energy density batteries very effective competitors with jet-a