[lacrew]

Tesla Model S battery density: 140 WHr/kg

http://enipedia.tudelft.nl/wiki/Tesla_Model_S_Battery

140 WHr = 478 btu

https://www.google.com/search?q=convert+watt+hour+to+btu&rlz=1C1VFKB___US753US753&oq=convert+watt+hour+to+&aqs=chrome.5.0j69i57j0l4.10875j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Energy content jet fuel: 18,800 btu/lb

https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/EvelynGofman.shtml

Convert 18,800 btu/lb to btu/kg = 41,446 btu/kg

https://www.google.com/search?q=convert+btu%2Flb+to+btu%2Fkg&rlz=1C1VFKB___US753US753&oq=convert+btu%2Flb+to+btu%2Fkg&aqs=chrome..69i57j6.10135j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Compare: 478 btu/kg for Tesla battery vs 18,800 btu/kg for jet fuel.

Conclusion: It's more likely to see stokers shoveling coal in an airliner, than there is to be a battery powered airliner.

[SargeK]

Here you go getting all mathy and sciency. We’ve got a narrative to promote, doncha know? We don’t have time for all your physcianics stuff. The planet has a FEVER!

(And needs more cowbell!)

[Phlyer]

Compare: 478 btu/kg for Tesla battery vs 18,800 btu/kg for jet fuel.

Bingo!!

Back when I worked for a living, I was working on a solar-powered aircraft. We had to have a way to store energy overnight, and considered all types of storage systems, plus we used (in our analysis) projections of advanced solar cells with four times the efficiency (at eight times the price) of current technology solar cells.

Our total payload was 1000 pounds on an aircraft as big (though lighter) than an airliner.

Math is hard. But in the end, numbers win over wishful thinking.

[backwoods-engineer]

Good analysis and exactly right.