DavysApprentice said:
Aggiesincebirth said:
Ragoo said:
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Hendrix said:
I'm never getting on a battery operated plane. lol. I would want to see several hundred million successful flights first.
Doesn't have to be battery powered to have carbon neutral fuel source
what else could it be?
Best guess is hydrogen. It's light weight and maybe the airlines are wanting some sort of credit for doing so that will cover their fuel cost which is their biggest cost. That would make airlines very interesting...
They also can use nuclear power now to make hydrogen. So we will need more uranium if this is in the works.... DNN
Remember that nerd who about a billion pages ago (last week) posted about the excitement of the nuclear industries new Small Modular Reactors? Besides producing electricity they're also a great source of process heat which
could be used to...idk....power a direct air capture facility which pulls CO2 out the sky while simultaneously powering a second process which produces hydrogen, and then also powers the refining process required to combine them into syngas and start the building of your hydrocarbons.
It may or may not be a crack pot idea I'm working on for a PhD. Renewables are going to run into a scaling problem on the making of hydrocarbons/hydrogen due to the lack of power density, that's where fancy nuclear comes in.
I think the aircraft community would be a-ok using jet fuel that has been "recycled" from their emissions which have been pulled out of the sky.
*Getting the public to approve a nuclear powered refinery is an entirely different issue*
