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Definition: Synthetic or Non-fossil Kerosene, Synthetic Fuel or Synfuel, Syngas or Synthesis Gas

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I didn’t know these fuels were practical enough for commercial use already, so that’s great! Now, if they could settle on one name for each!

 

Syngas or Synthesis Gas

A fuel gas mixture consisting primarily of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and very often some carbon dioxide

 

Synfuel or Synthetic Fuel

A liquid fuel, or sometimes gaseous fuel, obtained from syngas

 

Synthetic or Non-fossil Kerosene

Kerosene used as aviation fuel that is created without fossil resources

 

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The Smith Cloud is our Galaxy’s Fart Coming Back to Us

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I learned about the Smith Cloud today via the video below from NASA. It’s a gas cloud the mass of about 2 million Suns (not much astronomically), moving at a high velocity of about 700,000 miles per hour. It’s one of many circling the Milky Way, but one that is coming back to collide with the Milky Way. When it does, it’ll just kind of merge in and cause a lot of new stars to form from all the gas and energy it carries, not much more. Boring, with a slightly mysterious history likely unraveled, unless you look at it in a different way with a scientifically apt metaphor…

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