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Did you know "avgas", short for "aviation gasoline", in its most common use, is still using lead as a countermeasure to engine knocking? It means, the aviation
by jbuhbjlnjbn 5y ago
Did you know "avgas", short for "aviation gasoline", in its most common use, is still using lead as a countermeasure to engine knocking?
It means, the aviation industry continues to poison the world by spraying lead in the form of exhaust gases everywhere.
The sooner this is stopped, the better.
- upofadown 5y agoThe article mentions this indirectly, but the leaded gas issue is actually orthogonal to the question of the practicality of battery powered aircraft. Aircraft can and do work without leaded gasoline. The unleaded aviation gas issue has already been discussed to death here. It gets brought up every time there is any reference to anything to do with any aircraft that runs off gasoline.
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- JasonFruit 5y agoThe FAA in the US just approved a list of about 600 aviation engines to use unleaded, so that welcome change is progressing.
- jeffreyrogers 5y agoJet aircraft use jet fuel, not avgas. Avgas is really only used by small GA aircraft and the FAA recently approved many of them to use unleaded avgas.
- jessaustin 5y agoLeaded gasoline is bad, but the worst part about it was that its use was concentrated in cities. Dose makes the poison, and kids in cities were getting a lot of tetraethyllead from all the motorized vehicles driving around. That isn't an issue with avgas, which is typically used while flying thousands of feet above relatively unpopulated areas.