Alternate fuel technical question?

[yaric008]

I think in the end it should go something like this. We continue to use bio crops to produce ethanol and biodiesel for a while. Eventually someone will get algae working and it will produce enough biodiesel for probably 40% of the country. Then we'll finally run out of oil and the US government will SPAZ and finally put the time and money they should into nuclear fusion. That'll take a year or two and then they'll start building operational fusion plants. Once that gets going making hydrogen is a no brainer and then we have to change our infrastructure.

So in other words... hydrogen and fusion is the eventually end game. Biodiesel will fill the transition. Hydrogen is where practically all energy on the earth is derived from anyways because it's all from the sun. Minus any geothermal energy which originated from the accretion of the earth.

[roofeditor]

Originally Posted by yaric008

I think in the end it should go something like this. We continue to use bio crops to produce ethanol and biodiesel for a while. Eventually someone will get algae working and it will produce enough biodiesel for probably 40% of the country. Then we'll finally run out of oil and the US government will SPAZ and finally put the time and money they should into nuclear fusion. That'll take a year or two and then they'll start building operational fusion plants. Once that gets going making hydrogen is a no brainer and then we have to change our infrastructure.

So in other words... hydrogen and fusion is the eventually end game. Biodiesel will fill the transition. Hydrogen is where practically all energy on the earth is derived from anyways because it's all from the sun. Minus any geothermal energy which originated from the accretion of the earth.

There is quite a difference. I did my thesis theory on deuterium-tritium fusion at MIT many years ago and I can tell you for SURE Billions have been spent in Fusion research. It has STILL not ever worked other than for a thousandth of a second and then with tremendous laser power to get it going for the thousandth of a second.

Fission on the other hand works well and that would take about 5 years to get one on line if the federal government used federal land and over-rode the local governments. The long approval and building process would take about 10 years to get one on line.

When I want a good laugh I listen to someone telling me about cold-fusion!