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NASA’s incredible new solid-state battery pushes the boundaries of energy storage: ‘This could revolutionize air travel’ (news.yahoo.com)

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NASA’s incredible new solid-state battery pushes the boundaries of energy storage: ‘This could revolutionize air travel’::“We’re starting to approach this new frontier of battery research."

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh yeah, way worse than filling planes with thousands of gallons of extremely flammable jet fuel

[+] [email protected] -11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jet fuel is one of the few remaining applications of leaded fuel.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, it’s not. Jet fuel does not have lead

Small propeller planes use leaded fuel

Actually , one of the proposed solutions to leaded fuel in propeller planes was to see if you could modify the engines to use jet fuel

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Additionally, there are several unleaded alternatives in the works, one of which (GAMI 100UL) has been approved by the FAA for use in all avgas planes with the purchase of a Supplementary Type Certificate.

Some light aircraft, such as the Diamond DA40NG use automotive diesel engines adapted for aviation that burn jet fuel instead of avgas. The diesel version of the Diamond is about 40% more efficient than the avgas version, and also flies considerably faster.