Re:Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path
by quotemstr on Thursday November 07, 2019 @01:06PM
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The liquid is gasoline, and you can make it carbon neutral. This whole effort toward battery powered aircraft is misguided: technically, hydrocarbon fuels work better than anything else. What you want to do is make carbon neutral hydrocarbon fuels.
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Re:Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path
by chr1 on Thursday November 07, 2019 @01:26PM
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The real advantage of electric airplanes is simplicity of electric motors, better aerodynamical properties of a plane using many small propellers, and possibility of vertical takeoff.
Ideally when we have kerosene based fuel cells we could have small electic aeroplanes that will be much easier to control, and would allow more frequent direct flights, instead of having to collect 100s of people together make them wait several hours, and drop them at an inconvenient location.
Re:Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path
by quotemstr on Thursday November 07, 2019 @02:17PM
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Sure. I have no objection to electric power trains for aircraft. But at that point, we're not talking about eliminating carbon emissions anymore, so the climate angle in this article ceases to be relevant.