Originally Posted by Pax Vobiscum
Loose rivets, what it would take is an infrastructure. Right now, no-one is building that infrastructure because it wouldn't be be profitable. Once the price of oil rises sufficiently, you'll be amazed how quickly Shell, Exxon &c will start to build it, when they see they can make a few billion a year out of it.
Sorry, with the best effort in the history of mankind, it simply will not work.
Our existing fuel comes from a stockpile that took millions of years to build. It is MILES thick in lots of places, yet still our needs are seeing it diminish at an alarming rate.