American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft

Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over... by replygirl on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:38AM (#32484257)

> is there a synthetic fuel plant with zero impact at any scale already? No, this is just wasting more fuel for the heck of it

cool, so you're on board with nuclear + hydro as a more sustainable base load solution than lithium-based batteries

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Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over... by panick21_ on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @12:27PM (#32485065)

I would love a future where we are making everything nuclear, including synthetic fuel. However this is nowhere near reality. You need high temperature reactor to make this viable.

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Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over... by tgv on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:49AM (#32484434)

Lithium based batteries don't produce power.

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Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over... by alex_young on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @12:39PM (#32485268)

Did replygirl say they did? To my reading they are talking about using batteries to store and deliver baseline energy from intermittent sources like wind and solar.

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Re:American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Over... by replygirl on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @01:19PM (#32485878)

this

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