Bananenweizen t1_irqhsll wrote on October 10, 2022 at 7:20 AM

Reply to comment by Ok-disaster2022 in TIL that passenger jet engines produce most of their thrust from fan at the front, not from the jet exhaust, and that this is called a high-bypass engine. by Rilot

In principle, it is not different than your car engine. Burn fuel to get energy available, then use this energy to spin parts of your vehicle designed to push the vehicle forward when spinning. Only instead of ICE and wheels pushing against the road (with a lot of gears in-between) you have a turbine and a propeller pushing against the air (while mounted in the same axle).