Aftermath: World Without Oil on National Geographic Channel

i guess somebody should get the fusion reactor to work

 

There's nothing in oil that can't be made synthetically it's just far easier and cheaper to drill the ground for it.

Hell you can make petrol out of air if you want to. This was done on a large scale by the axis powers in the later part of WW2 and the principles haven't changed.

 

Petrol from air? Do you perhaps mean from coal, this way?

Fischer?Tropsch process - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I understand that the intermediate is carbon monoxide, but air concentrations of that gas are generally very low. And oxygen breathers much prefer it that way

 

Is this available online somewhere? I no longer get NatGeo

 

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Um, I think you mean the process of making nitrates "out of thin air." This is called the Haber Bosch Process, and has been around about a century

 

I already have one. it's tied in with the flux capacitor to provide the 1.21 jiggawatts to make time travel possible, AKA Mr. Fusion.

 

Ah, that explains why you saw me 20 years ago, before I even knew who the hell you were!

Stop doing that. It tends to mess up my brain