Topic: Comparison of existing high density fuel options for aircrafts (Read 707 times)

Moto7575 · « **on:** January 16, 2019, 05:44:31 PM »

Very interesting comparison of existing fuel options (fuel, biofuel, hydrogen, electricity...).

togo · « **Reply #1 on:** February 19, 2019, 06:27:43 AM »

There's a good table here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

Carbohydrates are higher volumetric density than jet fuel or diesel or gasoline, which is interesting. And they are renewable.

I recall that thermite had good energy density, but I'm not seeing that there.

There are some interesting details here, like recovery efficiency:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density_Extended_Reference_Table

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