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Tetsuo@jlai.lu 9 months agoThe idea of shipping liquid fuel in trucks and dispensing it out of hoses at special fuel stores is just silly.
I don’t necessarily disagree with that but I hope you see that this type of infrastructure is exactly what we currently have and have proven to work.
It wouldn’t be that stupid to reuse an existing infrastructure that is already built. The issue with our current fuel infrastructure is that it is moving fossil fuel.
ch00f@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What I don’t get is how gasoline even has an infrastructure. It’s delivered by trucks. If you replace the manufacture and dispensing with new equpement, what infrastructure are you left with? Trucks?
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 9 months ago
It all relates to the density of energy in fuel.
Fossil fuel is so energy dense you can get away with pretty much any way to distribute/dispense.
Trucks and most importantly thousands of strategically located gas stations. Even if you distribute a different kind and less dense energy I would argue it still makes sense to have spread stations all over the place.
If we want to keep using our existing roads and highways we will need those stations even if they distribute something entirely different.