Darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject

Re:Darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megapr... by koverstreet on Sunday January 12, 2025 @12:01PM (#42674917)

We're going to get a 4x energy density improvement from lithium sulfur batteries, just as soon as production ramps up.

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Re:Darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megapr... by bobthepanda on Sunday January 12, 2025 @12:53PM (#42675331)

Wikipedia lists the energy density of kerosene as 9.7k Wh/L, and lithium sulfur at 550 Wh/L, which is not great.

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Re:Darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megapr... by zardo on Sunday January 12, 2025 @01:47PM (#42675756)

Hydrogen isn't so great either.

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Re:Darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megapr... by koverstreet on Sunday January 12, 2025 @07:21PM (#42678545)

But burning kerosene is much less efficient, and turbine engines have a much lower power density than electric motors, so knock 2/3rds off the the kerosene number.

550 Wh/L would also be for the first lithium sulfur batteries to market, they'll double that down the road.

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