Frederick Sparber writes: >You're not turning them into oil, Jed you need the fission reactor heat to >drive the Kerogens out of the shale >(2 to 15 gallons/ton) mined by 21st century robotics. .
I just do not see the advantage of making synthetic fuel if you already have fission energy. Why not use the heat to generate electricity directly? If you do need some liquid or gas fuel, just use hydrogen. It seems a lot cheaper, if you have the fission power to spare in the first place. Synthetic liquid fuel would be useful if the electricity all comes from a giant thermal farm in Arizona, in the middle of nowhere, but you can build fission plants reasonably close to population centers, so why not use the energy directly? >The average household uses 500-720 KW-Hr/month. >Where is the Power Plant-Grid capacity-infrastructure in place to handle >"Off-Peak" >and instant 50 KW-Hour Hybrid Recharge for ten or more cars at a time at the >"gas station"? This is not needed. There is no call to recharge a plug in hybrid quickly. It can be done overnight. If you forget, or if you do not have time to recharge, it does not matter. It just means you use more liquid fuel that day, and pay more for transportation. A method of rapid recharging during the day would be a big help for pure electric vehicles, but it would make little or no difference for plug-in hybrids. - Jed
