• grandkaiser@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    We absolutely can ‘make oil’. Been doing it since world war II. Synthetic oil is extremely common.

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          14 hours 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.

          • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            11 hours 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.

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            14 hours 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 😄

            • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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              3 hours ago

              Same for hydrogen really. The only case where it really matters is flight, which requires energy densities that will only ever be achieved by hydrocarbons or maybe hydrogen.