Re:Could Carbon Dioxide Be Turned into Jet Fuel?
by aaronblohowiak on Friday December 25, 2020 @08:31PM
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I think LNG would be more likely candidate , and doesn’t kg matter more than L here?
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Re:Could Carbon Dioxide Be Turned into Jet Fuel?
by sokoloff on Friday December 25, 2020 @09:22PM
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kg matters a lot, of course, but most airplanes are out of space for additional tankage as currently designed. (They are designed for a given mount of fuel capacity volume, in relation to the mass of that fuel volume. None would have a 4x multiple.)
Scaling volumetric storage by a factor of four produces about 2.5x the wetted frontal area (4 ^ (2/3))
Re:Could Carbon Dioxide Be Turned into Jet Fuel?
by aaronblohowiak on Friday December 25, 2020 @10:03PM
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If I understand correctly LNG is 20MJ/L so not a 4x difference (but much colder, with all that implies...)
I would agree there’s a likely range reduction, but I don’t have any stats on current normal fueling as a percent of max capacity (iow: are there many routes that are running more than half full today?)