
The Allplane Podcast #77 - developing electric aviation with Tom Vroemen (Electric Leap)
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The Future of Sustainable Aviation Fuels
I believe that sustainable aviation is the final frontier of sustainability. It's extremely important that work is being done on this and it's extremely hard to crack the formula. I published some quick posts on LinkedIn a few months ago where I compare the same sustainable aviation fuels, hydrogen and battery electric. Electric motors are extremely efficient in storing energy. And if you put clean energy in it from solar panels or from wind turbines, you have a what they call well to wheel or maybe well to prop shaft efficiency that is above 80%. Fuel burning aircraft have a very low efficiency,. which is something we have become accustomed to, you know, gas turbine as an efficiency in the order of magnitude of less than 40
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