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You apparently can’t invest in these companies.
They claim a 100 mile range. I wonder if that includes a reserve.
“modifications involved filling up the cabin with two tons of lithium-ion batteries and cooling equipment, leaving little room for passengers, the paper reported. The relatively limited flight time and range (100 miles) “
TWO TONS OF BATTERIES AND COOLING EQUIPMENT
You could probably drive 200 miles round trip faster then the plane could fly, recharge, and fly back.
Would it be safer to have a hybrid plane?
There are hybrid cars, that can run of electricity, but have the reserve of gas fuel if needed. I know less than zero about planes. I am just asking the question.
100 mile range. How long does it take to charge?
Anywhere you and a couple of friends want to go in 28 minutes as long as you are in no hurry to get back.
Woohoo.
That’s nice. They left windows in it so that the batteries can see out.
Electric turbines are next. I don’t know if current battery technology can power turbines the size of the GE90.
Uh....no thanks.....
The densest and by far the most convenient/safest form of energy storage short of nuclear are the highly branched saturated alkanes. This electric crap is a complete fad.
Everybody just goes ga-ga over anything "electric" even if it makes zero economic or systems sense. This is all to appease the Global Warming Gods and their fictitious "crisis."
Take a look at the energy storage capacity of various types below. You'll find batteries near the bottom. No battery is ever going to compete with a hydrocarbon fuel. I don't know why we just don't jump straight to antimatter!
| Storage type | Specific energy (MJ/kg) |
|---|---|
| Antimatter | 89,875,517,874 |
| Deuterium | 579,000,000 |
| Plutonium-239 | 83,610,000 |
| Uranium | 0,620,000 |
| Hydrogen, liquid (LHV) | 120 |
| Hydrogen, at 690 bar and 25°C (LHV) | 120 |
| Hydrogen, gas, 1 atm, 25°C (LHV) | 120 |
| Methane (1.013 bar, 15 °C) | 56 |
| LNG (−160 °C) | 54 |
| CNG (250 bar/~3,600 psi) | 54 |
| Natural gas | 54 |
| Gasoline | 46 |
| Diesel fuel | 46 |
| 100LL Avgas | 44 |
| Jet fuel | 43 |
| Body fat | 38 |
| Coal, anthracite | 30 |
| Ethanol | 30 |
| Coal, bituminous | 25 |
| Methanol | 20 |
| Wood | 18 |
| Peat briquette | 18 |
| Coal, lignite | 15 |
| Sodium | 13 |
| Gunpowder | 10 |
| TNT | 4.2 |
| ANFO | 3.7 |
| Lithium metal battery | 1.8 |
| Battery, zinc-air | 1.6 |
| Lithium-ion battery | 0.9 |
| Sodium sulfur battery | 0.9 |
| Alkaline battery | 0.5 |
| Nickel-metal hydride battery | 0.4 |
| Lead-acid battery | 0.2 |
| Supercapacitor (EDLC) | 0.03 |
