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Bjorn Fehrm's mental models

2 claims Bjorn Fehrm made fit 2 mental models. Most often: Bottlenecks, First principles. Everything they said here.

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Bottlenecks

A system moves only as fast as its narrowest point; speed up anything else and nothing changes.

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Sustainable aviation fuel cannot be scaled to the size of the fleet, because its feedstock competes with growing food.

  1. Bjorn Fehrm Aeronautical engineer, former fighter pilot and airline… There won’t be enough of it for the 25,000 planes flying each day, the feedstock will compete with food production. Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of hydrogen. Part 31. Wrap-up: Where we standleehamnews.com · 2 Apr 2021All korrents from this piece
    There won’t be enough of it for the 25,000 planes flying each day, the feedstock will compete with food production.

First principles

Reason up from what is known to be true, not from what is usually done or said.

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Battery-electric airliners do not work even on optimistic assumptions, and the arithmetic said so before anyone built one.

  1. Bjorn Fehrm Aeronautical engineer, former fighter pilot and airline… Having done the sums before hitting the keys, I was a skeptic. It just didn’t work, even with optimistic assumptions around the parameters for the aircraft and its batteries. Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of hydrogen. Part 31. Wrap-up: Where we standleehamnews.com · 2 Apr 2021All korrents from this piece
    Having done the sums before hitting the keys, I was a skeptic. It just didn’t work, even with optimistic assumptions around the parameters for the aircraft and its batteries.