I'm reminded of the synthetic diamond process [1] and the industrial demand for perfect diamonds, cut to order exceeded the perfection nature's diamond mines could never deliver.
So with todays digital technology, instead of the analogue world of the 1920's, it would seem the Fischer-Tropsch[2] process has every chance of succeeding on an undustrial scale, bringing vehicle fuel to inhospital regions of the planet, and yet the nuclear industry with notably scaled down nuclear reactors or Small Modular Reactors [3] could be the saviour of the automotive sector, something the Germans have experience of as well, if stuxnet [4] and Iran are anything to go by.
I still dont know why we dont bury nuclear waste using a convergent boundary [5] from plate tectonics. Its all ultimately come from core of this planet, why not return it to the core for the ultimate form of recycling, like much of our landfill waste, and man made waste. I sometimes think environmentalists and politicians want us to live in our waste.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond#High_pressur...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_boundary