Oddly, the (certifiably mental) James Hansen agrees. As do I. But the rest of the (certifiably mental) environmental movement doesn’t apparently take climate change as seriously.
OTOH, Making synthetic hydrocarbons from nuke is one of the nuttier ideas out there, however. Frank, if you’re a physicist, I think you see the thermodynamic problem with using a heat generating reactor to generate electricity, in order to make a heat generating fuel, to run an IC engine on. I doubt you could get 10% overall efficiency.
I think we can safely wait this climate catastrophe out for another decade while we perfect some sort of battery or fuel cell system which will be much more suitable for use with electricity.
And FWIW, the hydrogen fanatics think that industrial scale electrolysis is a trivial problem. It isn’t. We don’t know how to do it with reasonable efficiency right now.
