I can buy or build a hydrocarbon powered genset. Yes, I can actually machine the parts for the engine and wind the alternator. I know they work.
Proof=pudding.
The author of this piece discounts history in transition from one source of energy to another.
Great Britain, wood to coal. US, wood to coal to petroleum.
Those changes were abrupt, quick, and disruptive.
I suspect the next change will be the same.
There are plenty of hydrocarbons on Titan, if we want to go get them.
I remain, agnostic. Show me.
/johnny
The same goes for hydrocarbons on Earth.
It may or may not be quick, it all depends on how simple and practical Rossi’s machines are to install.
With the previous transitions, much of it had to do with the fact that we were running low on convenient and low cost supplies at the time, much of it due to the limits of technology of the day.
H3 on the moon is cleaner and a hell of a lot closer.....
In fact, while UK was moving rapidly into coal due to the disappearance of wood the United States had people IMPROVING the jack tar pine breed to produce more combustible oil in ever larger quantities.
The only JARRING TRANSITION occurred when electric motors replaced drive belt systems that provided power from a central belt in factories. As fast as wires could be threaded through a factory machines were converted to electric drives.
You can make a pretty good argument that the productivity improvements that derived from that transition was a major cause of the deflation that appeared coincidentally with the Great Depression.
When it powers a vehicle (car, boat, aircraft, rocket!) I will believe it.
Until then, its a stage trick.
Do you have a CNC? How many axis’s? What software do you use?
Man, if I had one I’d be busy every day after work. Then again, if I had a CNC, I probable would make that my work. How do you get the metal or whatever you use? What about tools, do you have to replace them often and are they expensive. Hell, a man with a CNC has his own tool shop and is his own boss. Pretty cool.