We’re not going to replace the absurd amounts of fossil fuels with other burnable fuels, we’re simply going to grid-tie everything that we can and put batteries in the rest, with some bridging in a couple of places like longer haul trucking as this works its way through.Īnd all heat will electrify too. All ground transportation will simply electrify, although the USA’s rail fleet will take longer because of the dysfunction, arrogance, and stupidity of the US rail industry. The first thing is that the only places we will need significant amounts of biofuels is in longer haul aviation and marine shipping. When I finally got around to it, it turns out there are ten that I’m aware of, at least the way I count them.Īs a reminder or an introduction, here are the basics of my thinking. He’d been looking at and listening to my thoughts on biofuels and noted that I had said that there were seven or eight pathways to them, but never listed them.

Recently, Ivo Sarjanovic, non-executive board member, agricultural commodities professor in Argentina and Switzerland, and venture capitalist agtech investor, reached out to ask me a really good question, one that I should have answered in writing before now.

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