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Crackhappy , to News in FAA Adopts Carbon Limits For Airliners
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That's great. Can we force ships to do the same?

swope OP ,
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I don't even know what the FAA counterpart for maritime is.

HubertManne ,
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I think we do but not in international waters. Many shipping ships have two engines. The dirty one it uses most of the time and the clean one it uses when getting to or leaving a port.

RagingHungryPanda , to California in California FBOs Told To Stop Selling 100LL, Switch To G100UL [This is the end of leaded fuel for small propeller planes in California]

I hadn't heard of G100UL, but the gist is it's 100% octane. If I remember school right 100 Low Lead was 90-something percent octane and uses lead to get to a 100% equivalent. The octane has a slower burn rate than the other % of fuel that was in there.

silence7 OP , (edited )

G100UL is quite new; it was only approved by the FAA in the fall of 2022. Should be downright amazing to make the switch and not have another generation of kids grow up with cognitive impairments.

Spiralvortexisalie ,

I am no expert in Aviation or fuel, but there has been high octane unleaded ethanol free fuel options for years (Racing Fuel comes to mind aka mogas) and G100UL has been around for > 15 years aside from other competitors with similar products. It feels like regulations like California’s are the only reason the FAA even started doing anything.

The True Inside Story of the G100UL Fuel Approval (in 22 seconds) by AVweb

silence7 OP ,

Yeah, the fact that several local governments banned leaded fuel sales was a big impetus for the FAA to actually approve the fuel for all piston-driven planes.

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