| You seem very confident in your position, and I am reminded of the confidence of people exclaiming solar power would never take off back when commercially available PV efficiencies were in the single digit percentages. Going from 8% to 24% effectively tripled PV panel output on a per area basis, even though it sounds like just a 16% increase. Given your confidence, I assume you are aware of efficiency bottlenecks and their associated fundamental thermodynamic limits. What do you believe is the bottleneck, and what thermodynamic principle limits it? At renewable farm scale everyone has read about negative pricing etc, so it seems there will always be a niche to profit from. How can you predict in advance the capex investment cost in advance of future developments? Pumping up fossil fuel certainly comes with costs (even when excluding moral and future costs), think of employees, securing facilities against attack, etc. Given Western divestment from Russian fossil fuels, on non-economic grounds, why couldn't we similarly some day divest from fossil fuels? > It'll cost 10x the price of the gas Qatar & Saudi Arabia pump out of the ground essentially for free. What a bizarre statement, 10x 0 = 0. If you want to educate people how you believe electroreduction of CO2 to be a dead end, please give scientific and economic evidence that renewable fuels could never become cheaper than sourcing and or distributing fossil fuels. |