Posted on 10/04/2019 3:45:33 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested Thursday at a town hall meeting in Queens, New York, that the U.S. should develop “zero-carbon airplanes” as part of a push to solve the problem of climate change.
After answering a question about a proposed monorail to deal with climate change, she declared:
When it comes to the Green New Deal, people are, like — and of course, they come from this zero-sum mentality: “We’re going to take away your hamburgers. We’re going to take away your airplanes. We’re going to take away all of these things.” And really, what this is asking us is what are we going to make, not what are we going to take away — what are we going to establish. And, frankly, for everyone who says a Green New Deal is going to ground planes, I guarantee you, climate change — which threatens storms, turbulence, airplane groundings, and airport closures —
will ground airplanes far sooner and far worse than any sort of climate legislation ever would if we made, for example, scientific investments in zero-carbon airplanes and flights and things like that, which, I believe, at some point, you know, hopefully we’ll be able to create that kind of technology. But it takes thinking like this to do it. So, thank you.
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Inspired by the Flintstones?
This chick is a visionary!
Been there, done that.
Not quite as crazy as it seems
I’ve been working on an all electric plane in the shed.
the battery is HUGE
Will it fly on carbon credits?
Gonna need some BIG rubber bands to go trans-Pacific with 300+ pax.
Problem? Ain’t no steenkin’ problem. KAD. Kool Aid Drinkers.
Giant hot air balloons. That’s the ticket. People shouldn’the be in that big of hurry. Didn’t some go “around the w I rld in 80 days”? David Niven?
Next she’ll apply for a patent.
Just got back from a road trip....You would need charging stations to accommodate. hundreds if not a thousands of cars along the interstate The time it takes to charge an electric car can be as little as 30 minutes or more than 12 hours. This depends on the size of the battery and the speed of the charging point. A typical electric car (60kWh battery) takes just under 8 hours to charge from empty-to-full with a 7kW charging point. It takes five minutes to get gas
so they could take off using solar power, then, once they are in teh air, they could run on wind if you put a windmill on top because they would be moving so fast that the windpower generated would keep it going
duh
why is this so hard for republicans to understand?
HAHAHA DIM-WIT DEM! The only original thought she’s ever had that made any since is the one where she said it was time to move on from impeachment of TRUMP!
I recall seeing a glider like airplane which could stay aloft almost indefinitely using photo cells to power the prop. I doubt it had more than a few pounds payload tho.
“the problem of climate change”
There isn’t one.
Enjoy the upcoming winter, promises to be a big one.
Buy a season’s pass now.
problem is, Fred’s power came from eating those gigantic pieces of meat
if they turn Fred into some sort of pathetic, sickly vegan hippy....ain’t gonna be much power there
Broomsticks?
No, inspired by the Hindenburg.
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