Originally Posted by
421dog
Why.
we have way more hydrocarbon substrate than we need, and we can use LNG for ground transport and Jet-a for air, essentially indefinitely if we stop doing stupid stuff like burning gas to make electricity.
we can make energy with current fission technologies now indefinitely, and much better technology exists.
(how many US naval nuclear vessels have had accidents?)
Not LNG -- tHAT STANDS FOR "
Lquefied Natural Gas". Basically a variant of stuff that we use for our cookers and gas fires now, "Jet-A" is what we use for aircraft, which is as bad as petrol/gasoline.
However nucliar would be good (and even cheaper !) if only we could avoid having very long life dangerous "spent" fuel, like, using Thorium instead of Uranium as fuel. Preferably in SNRs (Small Nuclear Reactors) which can be constructed far faster than "conventional" systems.