Isaiah Taylor
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for a long time.
And in fact, I think that hydrocarbons are sort of the perfect fuel.
It's hard to imagine a better fuel than a hydrocarbon.
It's very dense.
It could be a liquid.
It's non-toxic.
It has elements you already find in the atmosphere.
It's one half of an oxidation reaction, which means the oxygen's already there.
So you only have to carry half of it.
Normally, with chemical energy, you need to carry two buckets around.
And then you mix the buckets, and you get heat.
Well, hydrocarbons, you only carry one bucket, because the other half of the bucket's in the air.
It's oxygen.
So it's sort of the perfect fuel that you could imagine.
But where does it come from, right?
So right now it comes from underground, which is fine.
It's served humanity very, very well.
We've propelled ourselves to the civilization that we are today, essentially through drilling oil and burning it.
And that's awesome.
But I think we can do even better.