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Re:Battery supply problems faced by electric air taxis by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @08:18AM (#22246452)
> just use hydrogen

At that point, why not package the hydrogen on a carbon chain...oh wait.

A lot of these schemes compare poorly against synthetic jet fuel manufactured from atmospheric carbon.

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Re:Battery supply problems faced by electric air taxis by Hypx on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:18PM (#22251075)
Likely the issue is cost. We can make liquid H2 pretty cheaply these days. We don't know if synfuel can get close to that price.
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