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People are talking about hydrogen-powered aircraft. For all the effort needed to compress/liquify/store hydrogen, it has to be cheaper to make diesel out of CO
by sandworm101 5y ago
People are talking about hydrogen-powered aircraft. For all the effort needed to compress/liquify/store hydrogen, it has to be cheaper to make diesel out of CO2+Water.
- pjc50 5y agoI keep mentioning this whenever the subject is brought up: https://www.zmescience.com/research/us-navy-synthetic-jet-fuel-seawater-0423432/ https://www.zmescience.com/research/us-navy-synthetic-jet-fu... I've no idea whether it's been production scaled yet.
- nradov 5y agoIt hasn't been production scaled yet but the US Navy has been at the forefront of synthetic fuels research for years. Their objective is to reduce the logistic train for a Carrier Strike Force by using power from nuclear reactors to manufacture aviation fuel on site rather than relying on tankers.