An interesting video by Energi Media
Developing countries are buying EVs because they're cheap, in essence, 2- and 3-wheelers, buses and now EVs have reduced oil demand by 2 million barrels a day from what it would have been. Petrol and diesel demand is expected to peak in absolute terms in a couple of years, and has already peaked in China. That will not mean peak oil demand because of air travel and sea transport. These are sectors where will need to do more to reduce emissions.
"That will not mean peak oil demand because of air travel and sea transport. These are sectors where will need to do more to reduce emissions."
ReplyDeleteThe US Naval Research Laboratory is (or at least was) working on a process for making jet fuel from hydrogen and carbonates extracted from seawater using electric power from a nuclear aircraft carrier's reactor. The resulting fuel would obviously be carbon-neutral. The same equipment could be located near the seashore and use excess electric power from wind & solar. If ships' engines could be modified to burn jet fuel, this process would allow carbon-neutral aviation and shipping. The NRL estimated that the cost of synthesizing jet fuel onboard an aircraft carrier would be between US $3 and US $6 per gallon, which isn't terribly much more than current petroleum jet fuel.
I've talked a lot about carbon-free jetfuel ( https://volewica.blogspot.com/search?q=jet+fuel ) Key to its economics is the existence of surplus wind/solar electricity. That is prolly still 5 years away, as for now, cheap storage can soak up any surpluses. But yes, we **do** have ways to cut emissions from air travel.
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