The following is in response to
firstashore; the quote is from his livejournal. You should read it, he's a cool guy! Anyway, I thought I should share this with my other LJ Friends ...
I would LOVE to see Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) and Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) tech start up and make Saudi's oil redundant. Especially since I have reason to believe they
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In another generation, cars will mostly run off fuel cells anyway. Thus the main issue will be the source of the grid power.
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Would it be a strong as current plastics? Probably not, but it would be biodegradable, given enough time. Not fast enough to be useless, but not forever either.
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What could work quickly is lithium-catalyzed fusion of deuterium:
6Li + 2H -> 8 Be -> 2 4He + 22H -> 2 6Li .
(Beryllium-8 decay is on the order of microseconds.)
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