And companies Blue and X are moving to methane.
Since methane has no net performance advantage over kerosene and requires
at least a “few” millions of dollars additional development cost, why are
both companies so acting when they could pickup the magic kerosene IP for a
few bucks?
Bill
On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 7:02 PM Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, Randall Clague wrote:
I suppose you could coke any kerosene if you wanted to. Why would you
want to? My data is that coking was never an issue with either the 4K5
or the 4K14...
My understanding is that this required one particular kerosene, whose
exact nature and source are still proprietary. It's not something that
others could necessarily duplicate.
Henry