Formula 1 released more information about their carbon neutral fuel.

For the conspiracy theorists, they will chalk it up as another thing to suck up to Porsche for them to join.

It runs much deeper than that.

FIA already have Formula E to cover the electric side, there is no point for Formula 1 to go down the electric path. It is a doomed path anyways.

EVs aren't carbon neutral, they aren't sustainable. batteries components are like fossil fuel, a finite item that could be mined. They will eventually run out. Cobalt, lithium, etc doesn't re-grow, and Quite a fair bit still ended up in landfills even with recycling programs, which, up to now, is literally non-existent. The elements, once out of the ground, is gone forever. There is mechanism to replace them. 

Fossil fuel on the other hand, is actually a renewable. It's completely organic. The Earth itself doesn't stop recycling it's own 'stuff'. It may not seems like it but given time, Earth will keep producing crude oil. Right now we are using oil made from dinosaurs, but there was living things living on the face of the Earth even after the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. There are fossils being pushed downwards and compressed constantly for the last 65 million years, eventually they will turned into crude oil too. Even us humans. Given enough time. 

The carbon neutral fuel F1 is pushing for is made not from fossils but alternative biomass. It will be compatible will all combustion engines and that means even if we stop pumping oil from the ground, engines around the world will still have a fuel source to run on. 

Battery EVs will just be a stop gap thing. It's not sustainable for humans to completely migrate over to EVs. There just isn't enough rare earth elements to be used to make batteries. It will 'run out', meaning the cost to mine such elements will not be sustainable or economical. Recycling can only do so much, as there will always be losses to landfills. 

The only element we humans cannot run out of will be hydrogen. That will be the future energy source. 

Hydrogen powered F1 cars anyone?

 


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