Despite spending a mind-numbing amount of time deeply embedded in the automotive world, I had no idea synthetic oil didn’t have oil or petroleum precursors.
This is an incredible, and wildly under discussed win.
As soon as solar energy is being used at scale, this will probably become way more commonly used - big electricity expense is the only main cost.
The problem is that solar only works when the sun is out and startup/shutdown on industrial chemical processes isn’t easy. Once you start involving batteries for around-the-clock operation, it’s more efficient just to use electricity directly. Synthetic hydrocarbons are best used for the cases like aviation where the energy density is the biggest hurdle.
