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I don’t see how a purely electric aircraft could ever beat synthetic jet fuel made with electricity. If this is a hybrid, I am curious where they are stealing
by onjectic 1mo ago
I don’t see how a purely electric aircraft could ever beat synthetic jet fuel made with electricity.
If this is a hybrid, I am curious where they are stealing energy from.
- idiotsecant 1mo agoIt beats it by mostly not using the turbines. The turbines are there for long range diversions which should happen rarely enough to not really matter in terms of carbon release.
- Tepix 1mo agoWell, what’s the efficiency of synthetic jet fuel production? Is it still competitive? Can we realistically get lots of it, like ever?
- brohee 29d agoEfficiency is not that that important in an era of negative price electricity. Synfuel made just from air and electricity is doable (both water and carbon dioxyde can be extracted from the atmosphere). And with 10% of what's spend on IA we'd be way out of the lab... Thankfully there are military budgets (synfuel makes sense on a nuclear carrier)