Posted on 06/04/2020 9:43:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
“Which ‘powered aircraft’ go 5000 miles on batteries...”
None, that’s that point.
“And why the obscenities?”
No obscenity, just an abbreviation. If you’re old enough to know what that abbreviation means, then it can’t do you any harm.
Probably so. But if they want to spend their money developing it I’m all for it. That’s the American way.
Yea, I think I confused you with some the Leftists posting here. Sorry.
“Jet fuel burned off at a rate of $200 per hour versus $15 for electric.
Also compare maintenance costs! Not to mention extra training and operating overhead required of. the pilot.”
Need to factor in the initial cost of the batteries Which isn’t cheap.
Also have to figure in battery replacement costs as well as disposing of old batteries. Disposal can’t be cheap. That $15/hr fuel cost suddenly isn’t $15/hr anymore when the costs from beginning to end are factored in.
Airports have fighting jet fuel fires down to a science.
If a jet is coming in for a controlled crashed landing they dump excess fuel beforehand. How do they handle that battery bank that is a dead weight.
What about the cost of equipment and training for ground crews that now will have electrical fires to fight?
Such equipment, training, certification and re-certification can’t be cheap.
Throw in the higher insurance costs and the airports are going to have to charge more to airlines to allow E-planes to use the airport. That $15/hr cost takes another hit.
glide ratio 0:1.........................
Don't forget taxes. Fuels derived from petroleum are taxed by all levels of government. They will certainly add a surcharge/tax to make that up, and then some.
“They claim a 100 mile range. I wonder if that includes a reserve”
Yeah like an internal combustion engine.
Can’t believe I left the government out!
Yeah the government will enact some fees. Never expect the government to let a taxable opportunity go to waste.
“Need to factor in the initial cost of the batteries Which isn’t cheap.”
Entire conversion cost is less than one TBO.
“If a jet is coming in for a controlled crashed landing they dump excess fuel beforehand. How do they handle that battery bank that is a dead weight.”
The Caravan has no capability to dump fuel. A Caravan crashing with 300 gallons of jet fuel would be the bigger hazars.
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“Entire conversion cost is less than one TBO.”
So the cost of extracting the rare earth minerals from the ground, cleaning up the mess caused by the extraction, refining the minerals into useable purity, the cleanup from that, making the batteries, transporting the batteries, disposing of old batteries at end of life is cheaper?
Who woulda thunk it.
“So the cost of extracting the rare earth minerals from the ground, cleaning up the mess caused by the extraction, refining the minerals into useable purity, the cleanup from that, making the batteries, transporting the batteries, disposing of old batteries at end of life is cheaper?
Who woulda thunk it.”
MagniX.
Batteries are recycled. You get money back when you turn one in.
“So the cost of extracting the rare earth minerals from the ground, cleaning up the mess caused by the extraction”
Most is a byproduct of copper mines.
How much does the jet fuel weigh as it is expended? How much do the batteries weigh as they are discharged?
A plane flies further and higher as it gets lighter by burning fuel. The weight stays the same with batteries.
A reply and a duplicate FRmail! I am honored!
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