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by Tuna-Fish 4745 days ago
Electric aircraft is a genuinely bad idea. Converting the electricity to fuel and burning it is vastly more efficient than having to lift and land with both sides of the chemical equation.
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jessriedel 4745 days ago
Do you know what the best method is for producing jet fuel (aviation turbine fuel) in a carbon neutral way from electricity?
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Tuna-Fish 4744 days ago
Probably by ditching the electricity part and just using heat in Fischer-Tropsch. There might be new developments, I don't know.
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