Posted on 09/17/2022 6:33:31 PM PDT by lowbridge
Not for long.
“Multiple airlines say you’re wrong” just a reminder physics is not determined by woke corporate marketing departments. Physics doesn’t care how intense your devotion to batteries is the fact remains their energy density is two orders of magnitude less than petroleum fuels.
Sign me up! Can’t wait to fly my favorite relatives and friends hither and yon!
Our electric motor?
You work for the company?
Dude... they frigging ask the question about packing lithium batteries at the ticket gate every time.
there will be huge stockpiles of dead batteries everywhere- They gonna dump em in the oceans?
It really wasn’t all that scary. Just nausea inducing. The copilot got out after we landed and started immediately chowing down on a sub. The pilot was a friend of mine and said afterwards that happens more often than you think. What really scared me one time was I saw a plane coming in the other direction. Our turboprop 350-400. The other plane about the same closing 700-800mph. Passed close enough to see pilot’s faces very briefly in other plane.
Does Karen count as a cuss word?
;-)
Yep, airlines (esp. “regional”) are all about “turn & burn” for 16 hours+ per day...if not “hot swappable” batteries then they will be running the planes in “hybrid mode” (jet fuel turbo shaft electric generators running). Sounds like an “ESG”/virtue signaling play/ploy by the airlines...”hey, look, we are doing something!!”.
A Boeing 767 has a capacity of 23,980 gallons of jet fuel, weighing about 156,000 lbs. and a payload capacity of 115,700 lbs.
The problem for batteries is that the plane has a maximum take-off weight of 412,000 lbs. Even without a payload, the battery powered plane would have a markefly shorter range than the present aircraft fully loaded.
It was actually a front heading west to east spawning thunderstorms over a large area for us, which is why we has to circle so long, but we had plenty of fuel. Battery powered flight is for woke idiots and kid’s models.
Airlines make money when they are carrying passengers. AOG (aircraft on ground) are not making money, and the idiocy of trying to use batteries to power aircraft will become obvious to even the most delusional of the EV fanboys as these absurdities are pressed into service.
The answer is to comply with the flight attendant’s instructions to hook your phone to the planes’ batteries and hope to keep the plane aloft. Several hundred passengers dumping all of their phones’ power into the aircraft’s batteries may give the flight a couple of minutes more flying time. I never said that it was a good idea.
But a battery powered plane won’t have several hundred passengers. Because of the weight of the batteries it will have a few dozen at most.
Wait until all the surrounding airports have weather issues.
Thanks for the reminder. I admit, I have gotten sloppy over the last few years myself.
All liberals aboard.
This is a real f-—ing stupid idea.
It’s a hybrid.
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