OT: Plane fuel

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

Cars can go electric, but what are planes going to do when the oil runs out?

[Mick]

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[charles]

big elastic bands?

[dennis]

Big weights that fall under gravity attached to the prop shafts by long cables.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not good enough. Its possible that advanced lithium air batteries might do the job, but my bet is on synthetic avjet made from nuclear power.

Bloody expensive, but when that's all you have left...

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

Just thought of an answer to my own question - biofuel.

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

Whoever thought up that idea was knocked on the head by one of the falling weights.

[soup]

Electric aircraft?

OK it's a fuel cell equipped aircraft but the actual motor is an "electric one"

[dennis]

Is that where you get the passengers to pedal?

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

could that be scaled to a 747?

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

"I'm sorry madam, your power to weight ratio is insufficient for this flight."

[Graham.]

No, but it might involve a closed loop including the toilets, situated here, here, and here.

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

ROTFPMSL! Or SMSL would be more productive.

[soup]

No idea . Wouldn't have thought so, but who knows what twenty years of development might do?

[philipuk]

Go back to being for the super rich only whilst the rest of us go back to never leaving your home town and just working all the hours of our lives for scraps of bread.

Philip

[Martin Bonner]

Could also be made from renewables. In fact, if you have enough renewables to provide electricity at peak demand, making liquid fuel or hydrogen for transport is a good way of using the excess capacity at minimum demand.

[harry]

Nah Nah.

[Tim Streater]

As usual you ignore all the serious drawbacks. And those don't even include the fact that the Atlantic is getting wider.

[The Natural Philosopher]

no, it would be 9 times the price made from renewables, or 30 times from solar.