1h40m01s19f Liquid Fuels for Vehicles and Machinery - Full Lifecycle Existing Infrastructure TR2016a
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 2017-04-28

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ We're still going to need liquid fuels for vehicles and machinery.

Kirk Sorensen:
But we could generate these fuels from the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and from water, much like nature does.

We could generate hydrogen by splitting water and combining it with carbon harvested from CO2 in the atmosphere- making fuels like methanol, ammonia, and dimethyl-ether, which could be a direct replacement for diesel fuels. 

Mike Conley:
The whole planet's transportation system is gauged toward the consumption of a fossil fuel. There's an entire internal combustion infrastructure on the planet.

Imagine carbon neutral gasoline and diesel sustainable and self produced.

-a way of getting the full lifecycle out of the infrastructure we've already built up.

Because you don't want to just abandon the infrastructure we've already built up. We have trillions of dollars of internal combustion machinery around. But we need to at least stop putting more stuff into the air.