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(DIR) Post #AVje5HszjiE3wVQRCC by WashedOutGundamPilot@poa.st
2023-05-17T04:49:04.062443Z
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(DIR) Post #AVjeEAR2o8GLRNaOcy by WashedOutGundamPilot@poa.st
2023-05-17T04:50:40.360093Z
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While you think it’s not that big of a deal, these smaller airports are often the best way to ship in stuff like organ transplants, people avoiding the hassle of a busy hub, or air cargo to distributed locales. Having a little twotter dropping off your amazon packages for the rural parts is much better than having to truck them out 80 miles
(DIR) Post #AVjeLsqQ5qa1CV8PXk by WashedOutGundamPilot@poa.st
2023-05-17T04:52:04.101444Z
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(DIR) Post #AVjeQKKNqwwrb4GivY by WashedOutGundamPilot@poa.st
2023-05-17T04:52:52.140058Z
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Uh oh, kid. Turns out your execs don’t like having to commute to the big city airport so you now have to move to niggerville, downtown or lose your job
(DIR) Post #AVjfLgkZ9ynxe1rqQy by ferrarilegends@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:03:14.448014Z
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@WashedOutGundamPilot first image makes sense, the only market where using large high capacity airliners on regional flights is asia where certain inter-japan had such extreme that 747s had to be modified specifically for shorter range, higher passenger count flights owing due to how close their largest international airports are to one another. here in the states with how big the US is and how spread out cities are, even the busiest sub 1000mi long flights don't have enough demand to justify using any beyond a 737/A320 at a high flight frequency before being forced to drop flights in order to not bleed money at just fueling and maintenance costs alone.
(DIR) Post #AVjfXZuIQbV5td5WQC by WashedOutGundamPilot@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:05:23.215956Z
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@ferrarilegends I think we’re on the verge of seeing a real surge in RJ use, just because they’re finally getting their engine tech & costs down. Embraer has been killing it lately.
(DIR) Post #AVjgOLVyfWDGbisIme by robbie@justbros.xyz
2023-05-17T05:09:02.678483Z
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Peoria is pretty much just niggers to begin with. Knew someone who worked ems there, said gun shot wounds calls were a nightly occurrence for them
(DIR) Post #AVjgWM5ERF7yghBSb2 by CoQ_10@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:16:22.556901Z
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@WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends I thought the A220 was killing Embraer's E series.
(DIR) Post #AVjgvgmQcqY07JT7tg by WashedOutGundamPilot@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:20:56.854364Z
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@CoQ_10 @ferrarilegends They wish. I think embraer just made a sale for like, 500 jets this week. Saw some mondo deal with them and netjets, and they’ve already sold a couple hundred to them since the boom in 2020
(DIR) Post #AVjhL7EbPDW1P4lscC by sky999999@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:25:32.986433Z
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@WashedOutGundamPilot I saw similar figures for subway ridership, which collapsed during covid ofc but I doubt they'll be back up
(DIR) Post #AVjhQluBcWk6zOv21Y by ferrarilegends@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:26:34.005267Z
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@WashedOutGundamPilot the E-Jets are especially going to surge even more in use since they have that perfect mix of seating and range to even tackle with the 737s and A320s on the longer-range lower-density domestic flights (something like seattle-san jose) while also being able to compete with traditionally smaller regional planes (CRJs, ATRs) on some busier medium-density short range routes like chicago-minneapolis.
(DIR) Post #AVjhgZWJR3wdD9Hns0 by WashedOutGundamPilot@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:29:25.173728Z
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@sky999999 The subway didn’t have a slightly more expensive, exclusive, nigger-free subway running better service right next to it though. We had this great little thing where all the wuflu protocols chased the 1st class and biz travelers right into the arms of charters and fractional jet operators. Most of those jet share companies expanded their fleets by insane levels, like 2-3x in the span of 2 years. Who knows if they’ll ever fall down to size again, I suspect that most of their clientele won’t leave. I hear it from buyers a lot, the whole 2020 thing ruined travel for them. They got a taste of either flying themselves or getting a charter, and now they can’t go back. You just show up to a small airport, walk right through the lobby, and get into your jet - no nigger shenanigans, no TSA ball-fondling, just pure, efficient travel. As long as they can afford it they’re sticking around. Even better, the influx of passengers has let them cut costs a bit more, so we’re really set for a shakeup in the long-term.
(DIR) Post #AVjhqniHWMEM7rlJY0 by CoQ_10@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:31:16.126832Z
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@WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends But is that the E series, or their business jets? Netjets wouldn't be buying the E series, would they?
(DIR) Post #AVjhx6fdwzRgeuXEDg by WashedOutGundamPilot@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:32:24.336772Z
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@ferrarilegends It’s weird, but nobody has cared all that much about the smaller commuter market for a while. There are some interesting things on the horizon, like Cessna’s twotter ripoff, as well as a whole thing of hydrogen powered hybrids waiting in the wings. If they can get those things working reliably that will get interesting in a hurry - the costs would be VERY hard to beat for the sub-200 nm niche. I’m hopefull that it’s gonna work, I love the idea of being able to put in self-sustaining Hydrogen systems at far flung airports to just refuel at your leisure. I’m sure it won’t happen but MAN think about how cool that would be for us.
(DIR) Post #AVji3vPIE8hpkh8dxg by Twoinchdestroya@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:33:38.764146Z
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@WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends Hydrogen has the issue of storage
(DIR) Post #AVji8zmtMq9kmoavL6 by WashedOutGundamPilot@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:34:33.479453Z
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@Twoinchdestroya @ferrarilegends They’re working on getting it into liquid right now, already working on drones from what I hear. There’s even turnkey retrofits for fixed-wing UAVs (IDK a buddy is always telling me about it so it may be bunk)
(DIR) Post #AVjiOJCDUPIDKAk34C by ferrarilegends@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:37:19.727889Z
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@CoQ_10 @WashedOutGundamPilot not really, when the A220 is more expensive for a plane that can't fly most US regional routes with a good enough flight frequency to generate enough revenue for the average regional airline. it is more popular with europe though for airlines needing to flying longer distance flights (like around 2000 miles or more) that don't have the demand to justify using an A330 or even an A321LR.
(DIR) Post #AVjiXnbNoInqEV2Rvc by WashedOutGundamPilot@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:39:02.385689Z
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@CoQ_10 @ferrarilegends They sold 250 Praetor 500s, so it was the smaller one there. I could have sworn netjets had a couple of the ERJs just for the rare occasions, but it looks like they max out at the 14 seaters. Maybe I’m thinking of someone else, there’s a market out there to steal charters away from the legacy carriers by offering a wider apt networkI don’t pay too much attention to the goings-on of carriers though, so the E-jets success may be hazy to me.
(DIR) Post #AVjipDvbBSgsnwnqNc by ferrarilegends@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:42:11.603361Z
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@WashedOutGundamPilot huge if true, if the teething issues for storing and using hydrogen as fuel on planes we might just see an explosion in demand for air travel in that range segment with the fuel costs dropping
(DIR) Post #AVjj08JOPBOIZV8OJs by WashedOutGundamPilot@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:44:09.606812Z
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@ferrarilegends I’ll see if he has the name of it. The system was described like a self-contained filler station, where you can trailer it to a field and hook it up to power/water and come back to find fully recharged H2 tanks. For now it’s small scale for drone work, like doing pipeline inspection
(DIR) Post #AVjj0Z5qpdbNdK0SSe by CoQ_10@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:44:14.661379Z
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@WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends Yeah, just got this from Aviation Leak:"NetJets has signed an agreement with Embraer for options on up to 250 Praetor 500 midsize business jets, along with an arrangement for comprehensive services and support.Deliveries are projected to begin in 2025. If all options are exercised, the deal is worth $5 billion at list prices, and will increase Embraer's total backlog by 29% to $22.4 billion, according to an analyst report by J.P. Morgan."
(DIR) Post #AVjj5eBPKuDKrm1qM4 by WashedOutGundamPilot@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:45:08.836937Z
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@CoQ_10 @ferrarilegends And they just bought more than 100, too. That’s a LOT in this biz. If you went to 2018 and told them they’d add almost 500 aircraft to the fleet in the next decade they’d say you’re insane
(DIR) Post #AVjjHQhvGPyaY0r7Nw by CoQ_10@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:47:17.475367Z
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@WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends Looks like the better off folks among us aren't liking scheduled airline service very much. Can't imagine why.
(DIR) Post #AVjjIk7aZJdT34UG8W by ferrarilegends@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:47:31.646247Z
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@WashedOutGundamPilot @CoQ_10 so far around 74 E-Jet E2s are in service compared to 262 A220s, but that's most likely due to the E-Jet E2 being brought into service later than the A220 and the fact that the regular E-Jet is not that old of a plane for most companies to want to bother replacing them yet and the fact that the regular E-Jets are still being made (about 1.2k made so far)
(DIR) Post #AVjjyH58vWhP9A9AK8 by Twoinchdestroya@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:55:02.099046Z
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@WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends From my knowledge, liquid storage is much more difficult. In order for hydrogen to remain in a liquid state, it needs to be cooled near absolute zero and immense pressure needs to be applied. This will be too much weight and unfeasible for small aircrafts. They can probably make an electroyzer engine, where it constantly generate HHO fuel to be combusted in the engine.
(DIR) Post #AVjk6gVkGYY0KXbGca by WashedOutGundamPilot@poa.st
2023-05-17T05:56:32.802300Z
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@Twoinchdestroya @ferrarilegends They can probably get it for small scale for now, who knows about later on. The upside of hydrogen is that it’s pretty cheap as far as fuels go, so you can afford to burn it just to keep the fridge going
(DIR) Post #AVjmqfaQEfNUgxqJai by tyler@1611.social
2023-05-17T06:27:16.198284Z
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Might as well just use electricity then.HHO is very stable and even the most efficient electrolysis, 70% of the energy input it wasted as heat. Then to combust it (not using a fuel cell) - that is also 70% energy loss.Hydrogen is not a fuel in this sense, but might as well be better treated as a chemical battery.
(DIR) Post #AVjsy0jqagUm2u8R2O by RealAkoSuminoe@poa.st
2023-05-17T06:17:28.009336Z
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@Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends Liquid hydrogen fuel is a meme technology. It's primary advantage is a very high specific energy (MJ/kg), but this is harmed by the additional weight brought on by the infrastructure needed to keep it cool and pressurized.Even then, it still has an abysmal energy density (MJ/L) compared to jet fuel. This means that the fuel will take up more space on the plane, reducing the amount of people or stuff that can be moved with it.Most of the interest in hydrogen has come from the fact that making a battery powered plane is an even bigger meme, and batteries worked well enough in cars that the hydrogen tech never caught on there. It was simply a convenient place to start dumping the research.If you want my take on how to make a more sustainable (either economically or ecologically) transportation industry, don't change the fuel, but change how it is produced. Figure out how to make bio-kerosene and then use artificial photosynthesis to produce solar-kerosene. Every existing plane can still be used, and it can be progressively introduced.
(DIR) Post #AVkA1D3KxeN6KNMWTw by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-17T10:09:36.168124Z
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@RealAkoSuminoe @Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends Hydrogen is a meme fuel, but methanol is not, and it’s easy to synthetize from basically … well air since all you need is CO2, Water and a fuckload of energy (most of which could be recovered in combined heat and power installations).And being liquid at normal temperature and pressure, it’s basically compatible with existing infrastructure, runs perfectly well in turbines and even existing diesel and gasoline engines could run on it with ECU and timing changes (not optimal at all for diesel, you would want a higher flash point, but it would work).All you need is lots of nuclear power plants to synthetize it, no need for any new tech or deep restructuring of the energy distribution and consumption infrastructure.
(DIR) Post #AVkKowiUyIXLgOyCye by sickburnbro@poa.st
2023-05-17T12:47:56.081320Z
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@CoQ_10 @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends the funny thing is that as they squeeze those first class riders off it's going to make the netjets style options have a larger market and will start peeling off a lot of the business fliers that have wiggle room.
(DIR) Post #AVkNlKgME5q8iMwAaG by Elliptica@poa.st
2023-05-17T13:20:53.922251Z
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@RealAkoSuminoe @Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends Li-ion batteries are not sustainable in the long term either. It limits the life of a well maintained car to around 8~10 years, obviously there are environmental issues with production of L-ion batteries, and it's actually less energy efficient than a simple gas engine. People who claim it's more energy efficient do so by only looking at energy transformation at engine, where almost all the energy in the battery is used to move the car. But a lot of energy is lost transporting that energy to a power station and when charging the battery. Gasoline is incredibly efficient up to the point where it's actually used by an engine, but even taking that loss into consideration it still beats li-ion batteries.The trick for to cut down on greenhouse gasses (which seems to be the major concern for all of this) is that we have to find an energy source like gas that does not add more carbon to the system. Petroleum was carbon that was basically taken out of our environment, and now we are adding it. Horses, for example, produce carbon, but run on grass, so everything is circular, nothing was taken out or added to the system. That's what we really need.
(DIR) Post #AVkP5B87YCvipowzJ2 by Elliptica@poa.st
2023-05-17T13:35:38.919474Z
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@WashedOutGundamPilot Want another one?I went on a road trip a few days ago. While driving through NM, I suddenly lost phone signal, like totally. I didn't think much of it until I stopped at a gas station, and the pumps didn't work either. Went inside, and the cashier told me they lost all internet and cell service, and has for the last few days. Looking into is, it's much bigger than that one area, as most of central New Mexico lost both. What happened is someone cut a major fiber optic cable and they are having issues fixing it.I could find only one Facebook post from a mayor in a small town giving details about it, saying that Homeland Security is investigating, and that the National Guard has set up mobile cell towers for residents in these areas. Yet I can't find too many (like basically zero) news stories on this. It seems like it should be a big enough deal for people to report on it.
(DIR) Post #AVkRgALhcJKV2H4Gga by Twoinchdestroya@poa.st
2023-05-17T14:04:47.035069Z
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@Elliptica @RealAkoSuminoe @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends Bio fuels are carbon neutral, theoretically ethanol should be a good alternative
(DIR) Post #AVkTP3HErCPG5UwmHo by Elliptica@poa.st
2023-05-17T14:24:06.140276Z
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@Twoinchdestroya @RealAkoSuminoe @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends I don't get why we don't invest in more research into that. Maybe they've already hit a wall with it too.
(DIR) Post #AVkUhEgzFngSesE24G by EssentialUtinsil@poa.st
2023-05-17T14:38:35.611279Z
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@Twoinchdestroya @Elliptica @RealAkoSuminoe @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends I highly doubt this, at least with corn-based ethanol.
(DIR) Post #AVkYjz8Twsq360eVFY by Twoinchdestroya@poa.st
2023-05-17T15:23:54.598472Z
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@Elliptica @RealAkoSuminoe @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends My understanding is that ethanol has a few downsides that haven’t been resolved yet for adoption. It’s a terrible cold starterIt’s damaging to current ICEStill cheaper to refine oil than distilling ethanol
(DIR) Post #AVkbzr7rnT8OkWcjwm by Elliptica@poa.st
2023-05-17T16:00:23.623720Z
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@EssentialUtinsil @Twoinchdestroya @RealAkoSuminoe @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends Ignoring the farming processes, burning of corn ethanol produces green-house gasses, but it also pulled these out of the air to grow, so it's not really adding anything to the environment that wasn't already in the topsoil and atmosphere.
(DIR) Post #AVkengmwhmUz4ljDhQ by Twoinchdestroya@poa.st
2023-05-17T16:31:48.559766Z
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@Elliptica @EssentialUtinsil @RealAkoSuminoe @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends It sounds viable. Corn removes carbon from the atmosphere, ethanol burns relatively clean, and all the husks and waste can be used as compost to rejuvenate soil.Do recall that the current infrastructure has a great environmental impact, maybe water and land consumption.But ethanol can be distilled from all fruit waste.
(DIR) Post #AVkqUq5v52WjszNheC by RealAkoSuminoe@poa.st
2023-05-17T18:16:09.449937Z
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@MyLittleFashy @Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends Most bio-diesel projects basically work like this, but with molecules that are more energy dense than methanol. There are isotopes of Butanol that get 90-98% of the density of gasoline, for example. Artificial photosynthesis is just supposed to be a more efficient process of synthesizing it using solar power.
(DIR) Post #AVkqUqnsRbgm5JwoAC by Twoinchdestroya@poa.st
2023-05-17T18:42:51.703945Z
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@RealAkoSuminoe @MyLittleFashy @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends I’ve seen some research on bio diesel deriving from algae farms, the very concept is interesting. Algae farms can be implemented in a variety of ways, outside industrial exhaust, in flat lands, integrated into urban environments. Cutting down CO2 emissions and later harvested for bio-diesel and potential food for livestock like pigs.
(DIR) Post #AVkr93ROsU0SrXbYkC by RealAkoSuminoe@poa.st
2023-05-17T18:48:27.284216Z
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@Twoinchdestroya @MyLittleFashy @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends The fact that this isn't the ~99% of the focus of the environmentalism is why environmentalism isn't a serious movement.Even nuclear can't provide 100% of our electricity because it's too difficult to dynamically scale production up and down to handle a real power grid. It can provide excellent baseline power and a large chunk of the grid, but not all of it.If we could use solar energy to produce methane, that would provide a power source that can be quickly scaled to match actual needs, without needing to use photovoltaic cells or giant Li+ batteries to store the power when the sun isn't shining.
(DIR) Post #AVkrPhNW9w65MLj1yC by Twoinchdestroya@poa.st
2023-05-17T18:53:08.264465Z
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@RealAkoSuminoe @MyLittleFashy @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends Nation wide nuclear adoption should be focused purely on supplying power to core infrastructure, large dense populations, and as surplus for any emergency. I like algae farms as a method to generate bio-diesel and food waste, specifically compostable materials, for methane and possible ethanol.
(DIR) Post #AVksXG21oicIofqGlk by MyLittleFashy@poa.st
2023-05-17T19:03:53.296538Z
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@RealAkoSuminoe @Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends I would basically solve the energy storage problem the same way, but using overproduction of nuclear energy (basically going over base load, but not up to 100% peak load) and using the overflow to synthetize methanol (or better, but for energy storage, methanol is fine) or even methane (but storage is more expensive) and just burn that methanol for the percentile of peak load that actually goes over my inflated baseload (and the rest of the methanol can run vroom vroom cars !).But both techniques are valid, artificial photosynthesis and/or bioengineered improved photosynthesis is a valid alternative, the decision between the two is a local one, in France we have a lot of experience with safe nuclear and very expensive land that is so great at agricultural production that it’s a waste to use it for fuel, but in a country with a lot of land, or a lot of not-great land, photosynthesis makes more sense.
(DIR) Post #AVkvu2gftgEDx6PVCa by Twoinchdestroya@poa.st
2023-05-17T19:43:26.580187Z
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@Elliptica @WashedOutGundamPilot The reset is happening, just outside of major cities