Comment on Know thy enemy
grandkaiser@lemmy.world 7 months agoWe absolutely can ‘make oil’. Been doing it since world war II. Synthetic oil is extremely common.
Comment on Know thy enemy
grandkaiser@lemmy.world 7 months agoWe absolutely can ‘make oil’. Been doing it since world war II. Synthetic oil is extremely common.
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I mean, yeah, but also, that’s not really efficient or effective for burning.
grandkaiser@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Neither is hydrogen.
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m not disagreeing, but if the energy is surplus, might as well make hydrogen, at least we don’t end up with pollution.
grandkaiser@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh certainly. Power storage is a real problem, especially with up-down renewables. I just didn’t understand why you were saying oil can’t be produced but hydrogen can. Synthesizing oil for power storage is a terrible idea 😄
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
arguably, compressing natural gas into LNG is fucking stupid, but apparently the market rates work out, so it’s economically viable. And here we are compressing a gas into a liquid just to ship it over the ocean lol.
market economies are just funny.