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In principle, you are right. Cheaper than coal renewables are winning. Don't forget though, that fighter jets can't operate on batteries.
by breakpointalpha 7mo ago
In principle, you are right. Cheaper than coal renewables are winning. Don't forget though, that fighter jets can't operate on batteries.
- lokar 7mo agoThey don’t contribute enough to matter
- NewJazz 7mo agoAnd using more electrics powered transport in other sectors frees up fossil fuels for other sectors.
- UqWBcuFx6NV4r 7mo agoThat’s a red herring. It’s not worth mentioning.
- Supermancho 7mo agoExcept for the industries where it does matter. Trivializing the needs of complex and energy hungry supply chains, is bad faith. They are one of the many reasons fossil fuels are so widely used.
- 317070 7mo agoIn the end, the industries that cannot run on biofuels are rare to non-existant. It's not fuel which is the problem, but fossil fuel! You totally can fly on biofuel, but it is not cheap compared to fossil fuel without externalized costs.
- bryanlarsen 7mo agoIf we stop using fossil fuels for the >90% of usage where fossil fuels are easy to replace, it'll make it much easier & cheaper for the <10% where it's difficult.
- kulahan 7mo agoIt's not really bad faith when we could make enormous progress in an enormous number of industries, and this in no way stops any of that progress in those economies. It's specifically bad faith to say it as if it does somehow matter in the grand conversation, when the actual fallout is extremely small. Pretty much nobody is saying we must remove 100 PER CENT OF ALL FOSSIL FUEL USAGE EVERYWHERE FOREVER, just that we need to move off it.
- BLKNSLVR 7mo agoSo we won't be able to fight air wars over the last remaining pieces of arable land. I'm convinced.
- mr_toad 7mo ago> fighter jets can't operate on batteries Gas turbines can run on a variety of fuels, natural, synthetic or a mixture of both. It’s actually one of the reasons that a turbine was chosen for the M1.
- carabiner 7mo agoYeah but gas turbines by definitions run on "gas" kerosene based fuel. If you're talking about a battery powered fan or prop that's very different.
- Nevermark 7mo agoKerosene is a mundane chemical. It is made with from water, carbon dioxide and energy. Use green energy and atmospheric CO2, and it is carbon neutral.
- hdgvhicv 7mo agoEvery mile you drive in an f150 steals fuel that should be going to American planes Patriotic red blooded Americans use renewable energy