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If they had the tech 100% market ready in the morning with a replacement fuel pump at every station in the western world, it'd still be for a propulsion method that is 60-80% heat losses, that requires shipping and pumping and what not and much more complex vehicles just to get a decent fuel return.
In comparison the electrical grid/solar is less heat losses and infrastructure that also has other uses than transport, but in transport is only about 30/40% heat losses.

TLDR it's bad money after bad in efficiencies.

My comment was referring to your post here

If the artificial-leaves thing (or any of the other similar technologies that are being researched) can create syngas from sunlight at scale without creating harmful waste, then it doesn't matter that internal combustion engines are inefficient. There's no shortage of sunlight

 

[ann post]

My comment was referring to your post here

If the artificial-leaves thing (or any of the other similar technologies that are being researched) can create syngas from sunlight at scale without creating harmful waste, then it doesn't matter that internal combustion engines are inefficient. There's no shortage of sunlight

You have to always assume that when i respond to anythign like this I've read about it and done envelope maths before responding.

Internal combustion engines will always:

still require signigicantly more manufacturing carbons and parts
still require more hydrocarbon lubricants
still be so inneficient that in all reality, a combustion engine is a heater that has a motion byproduct (50% efficiency is a motor industry dream)

Things that you put on surfaces to make electricity:

Solar panels - can be on existing industrial structures -can be deployed in existing areas where shade will not effect the ecosystem

Things that go on ponds that make a combustable fuel are:

At an infant level of development
at scale can not be deployed like solar panels can unless pond life must either fuck off and die or learn to live without sunlight unless we make synthetic ponds to put the synthetic leaves on to make combustable fuel.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I'm not ready to be hurt again so soon

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[pete]

Experimental antibiotic kills deadly superbug, opens whole new class of drugs

The relatively large molecule clogs a transport system, leading to lethal toxicity.

arstechnica.com

 

[seanc]

This has been all over the news today, but fairplay to this man, owning up to his own massive fuck up.

Driver calls 999 to report himself for drink-driving in Knaresborough

The man is arrested after telling police he is "drink-driving and doesn't know what he's doing".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

Now everyone will say how great he is for owning up and not what an ass for doing so in the first place

 

[therealjohnny]

13-Year-Old Boy Cured Of Terminal Brain Tumor In World First

On average, patients only survive nine to 10 months with this type of cancer.

www.iflscience.com

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

HIV can be eliminated in lab with gene edit tool - study

Researchers have eliminated HIV from cells in a laboratory, using a gene-editing tool which won the Nobel Prize in 2020, raising hopes of a cure.

www.rte.ie

 

[pete]

Fuck yeah science.

 

[nuke terrorist]

France has brought in legislation to stop discrimination on the grounds of hairstyle. The bill was introduced by an MP from Guadeloupe.
Even us baldies get a mention!

Now stop discriminating against woman who wear the Hajib.

French parliament backs bill against hair discrimination

MPs vote in favour of a bill that will penalise workplace discrimination based on hair.

www.bbc.com