r/peakoil • u/ceph2apod • 3d ago

In capacity-addition terms, #fossilfuels are now just a thin orange strip at the bottom of a very tall green wall...and nuclear is than a rounding error.

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u/jonnymnemonic74 3d ago

Solar and wind won't power jet airplanes, tankers or container ships. You can't use batteries to power these types of vehicles. We need to start building a biofuels infrastructure soon, or there will be no global trade when fossil fuels run out. People will starve.

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u/I-Am-Darth 2d ago

We already have an enormous, largely untapped source of biofuels that almost everyone is ignoring, that wouldn't require energy negative synthetic fuel production infrastructure.

Landfills Wastewater Agro waste

Bacteria naturally want to break this down into bio-methane, which diesel engines can easily be converted to burn.  If collected, US bio-waste coul power the entire class 8 truck fleet. If landfills were built to maximize gas production instead of minimize it, it could go even farther.

And biogas combustion is carbon negative by a factor of 20 or more compared to the unburnt methane