Are there alternative fuels for aircraft in case we run out of oil in the future?

Question

Are there alternative fuels for aircraft in case we run out of oil in the future?

Answer 1

Yes - biofuels.

"British billionaire Richard Branson said on Monday his Virgin Group hopes to produce clean biofuels by around the start of the next decade and early next year will test a jet plane on renewable fuel."

"Air New Zealand has said it plans to test a flight on a combination fuel of biofuel and kerosene in late 2008, but Virgin is trying to beat that airline by testing biofuels first."

Answer 2

A radio active element with a thirty year half life emmits alpha particles that heat the air when bombarded with xrays.   The discoverers of this wrote an article on how it could be used on aircraft in a form of jet without needing any shielding for the passengers.

Answer 3

Jet fuel, essentially high quality kerosene, can be made from coal or biomass.  It will simply cost more.

Answer 4

yes i think its biofuels

Answer 5

Pretty good answers so far. Baddius is a little mixed up, though. Kerosene is distilled from oil just like gasoline. Coal is a form of fossil fuel as well. During WWII the Germans figured out how to make oil from coal.

Bio fuel to answer your question.

Answer 6

Coal can be turned into a fuel that planes can use, it is clean, we have enough to last 1000 years. we still have oil that will last 400 years but it will get expensive.

Answer 7

strap 10,000 sparrows to the aircrafts wings and keep throwing birdseed

Answer 8

Sure.  If we become really desperate, we could fit aircraft with TORY-III nuclear ramjet engines as were developed for the Vought supersonic low-altitude cruise missile (SLAM) of Project Pluto.  Environmentalists might complain about the extremely destructive sonic shockwave, as well as the intense radiation emitted by the unshielded engines and the trail of nuclear waste spewed out the back of the engines, but no one would live long enough to complain too much, nor could their complaining be heard over the 150-decibel sound of the shockwave.  And, the good news for those concerned about global warming is that nuclear ramjet engines produce NO CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS!

Answer 9

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