guy_liking_pretty_planes
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Cold Fusion, Zero-Point Modules or Dilithium Crystals are a few of the SF solutions...windmills and solar panels as we know them just aren't going to cut the mustard!
Biodiesel/Jet Fuel are interesting options but like gasohol I'm not sure that the returns are worth the energy input...
The really funny thing is that the vacuous All Out Crazy, author of the Green New Deal is incapable of grasping the simple fact that without chemical fertilizers and pesticides, diesel powdered farm equipment and trucks/locomotives/oil burning ships there is no way to feed the population of the planet-if she wants to do something constructive how about collecting all that dangerous methane from cow farts and using it as fuel?
There isn't enough arable land to grow enough hay to feed the horses it would take to replace modern farm equipment, to say nothing of the fact that crops couldn't be harvested fast enough to prevent spoilage...The
Watching the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek has inspired me with such notions. That ship in theory must use some form of energy beams as thrust in outer space. Can't use ducted fans in zero atmosphere conditions. No air in outer space as a thrust medium. I believe the engines are possibly nuclear. Would this principal work for fast aircraft inside earth's atmosphere? The future of energy lies in advanced physics and chemistry. Imagine jet planes thrusted by energy beams. They ought to be super quiet.I've been about cutting the Arabs off at the Petro-Dollar since 1974...
Nice deflection-why haven't any of algore's dire predictions come true ten years past their due date or more?
Hydrogen is the perfect fuel for combustion engines-except for procuring it and of course the waste heat output associated with combustion engines that is somehow never factored into global warming paranoia...but I digress
For hydrogen in useful quantities we'd need some highly efficient fusion power source that would make the electrolysis process economical-perhaps even using the water to be split as a coolant first to increase its energy state (dang near plasma perhaps?) and decrease the required electrical power...
Of course with an efficient enough fusion process ducted fans could be run directly without combustion.
How about this-using the airframe as a very large capacitor and flying from thunderstorm to thunderstorm and collecting electrical energy?