tyler

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are lots of claims going around, but the physics just isn't there. Battery storage density isn't high enough currently (and doesn't look to be close) to support large planes. It's the same problem as with 18 wheelers. The larger the vehicle, the battery size increases superlinearly, not linearly. Because adding in battery storage increases the weight required to carry the vehicle, thus increasing the battery storage needs, thus ... and so on. With liquid fuel, the weight is variable based on the passengers, and the weight drops as the flight continues, thus increasing fuel efficiency the more weight is lost.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

No I’m asking you to explain how it’s not carbon neutral. I do not give one shit about the cost, I do not give one shit about how much the gas it produces costs (for reference the Porsche plant is at over $40 a LITER). You have stated it’s not carbon neutral. Explain how. If the machine does what it says then it is carbon neutral.

I have an electric car, I do not care about this machine. But I do care when people claim something and have zero evidence to back it up.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Please do explain how it’s wrong. Go on, I’ll wait.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

If you could link that it would be great. As far as I understand it, a commercial passenger plane (which holds several hundred people) is no where close to being possible. If you are talking about small planes that hold maximum ten-15 people then sure.

[–] tyler@programming.dev -1 points 4 months ago (7 children)

The efficiency doesn’t matter (to a point of manufacturing solar cells, or wind turbines, or whatever your equipment is for your renewable energy source). If all of the gasoline is generated from the air using renewable energy, it could take 100x the energy and still be completely carbon neutral. Carbon neutrality is based on the amount of excess carbon added to the air. If no carbon is added then by definition it’s carbon neutral.

Porsche already has a factory in Chile that is doing this exact same thing at a much larger scale.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

The particulate matter won’t occur in a hydrocarbon that is generated, that comes from imperfect processing of crude. If you pull the carbon directly out of the air there are no particulates.

But yes it will still be carbon neutral. No additional carbon will be released back into the atmosphere.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

No they do exist! But most scientists agree that we are unlikely to ever see commercial airliners using it, nor will freight liners use it. We would have to see ENORMOUS scientific improvements and many many many things that seem incredibly far fetched invented to get to that point.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

How about you go argue with the scientists calling it carbon neutral. My wife literally works in the field. It’s called carbon neutral.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 72 points 4 months ago (38 children)

It’s not worse. It’s carbon neutral (as long as the energy source is renewable like the sun). Any carbon it takes in will be released exactly back to where it was. It’s a much much better option than digging up oil.

On top of that, there are currently no likely possibilities of replacing gasoline for things like planes. So replacing their gas with carbon neutral gas will improve the situation by 100%.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’ve seen this article with at least 5 different verbs now. “Stunned”, “gobsmacked”, yadda yadda yadda

[–] tyler@programming.dev 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You know you can just eat protein right?

[–] tyler@programming.dev 32 points 5 months ago (5 children)

The tizen version is finally close to release. I don’t use a Samsung TV but in-laws do and I don’t like installing the dev version.

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