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I'm driving my daily driver on mix of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline. 104 octane rating, pleasent smell annd 10% more power. Ethanol is made from spills from paper/wood industry.
Talking about long term solution, I just don't believe in wind/solar electricity. It's just too small. Fision nuclear plants can deliver megawatts required but are dirty and require costly disposal of highly radioactive materials.
I firmly believe in fusion nuclear plants: they run on deuterium (easy to extract from sea water) and produce only low-active radiation in reactor walls (due to neutron-flux hitting the walls).
Yes, it will costs tens of billions of dollars and yes, it will take a decade or two but it's our only viable option in long term.
You could then use electricity to produce hydrogen, to be used in fuel cells (for cars) etc.
Yes, I know there is lot of technology to be developed but it's elegant and non-polluting option. Best of all, fusion reactor cannot go "bang". Turn it off and it will simply fizzle out. Amount on reactants in reactor is small and there is no possibillity of runaway reaction like in fission reactors.
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