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Electric Planes Are Coming Sooner Than You Think
https://www.afar.com ^ | Mar 3, 2022 | By Elissa Garay

Posted on 07/27/2022 6:26:03 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Sarcazmo; deport

Oops, I forgot “dirty” and “perverted”.

Apologies.


61 posted on 07/27/2022 6:55:12 AM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: Sarcazmo

Great response. Yeah, those five year plans will save us all, won’t they?

“con the world into going all electric” — it is a big con, for sure.

Maybe it’s all part of Klaus’ plan to get us plebes to give up all travel. Never travel more than 50 miles from where you were born in your entire life. No vacation trips. No cars.


62 posted on 07/27/2022 6:55:12 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“...see whether we in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.”)
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To: Gnome1949

“It could not land fast enough during a fire-in-the-air emergency. Everybody gets cooked alive before it crashes.”

Real planes can dump fuel in an emergency, maybe this one will be able to eject batteries...sucks to be where they land, but omelette/eggs you know.


63 posted on 07/27/2022 6:56:15 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Red Badger
Think smaller planes, shorter flights

He admits that "electric" (coal-powered) airplanes will be inferior to existing kerosene powered airplanes.

64 posted on 07/27/2022 6:58:38 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: HombreSecreto
How about wind-up, rubber-band propellers while they’re at it...

Guillows starts making commercial airliners...
65 posted on 07/27/2022 6:58:40 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Well, I guess they could melt down all of our pre-1982 pennies in order to get the copper.


66 posted on 07/27/2022 6:59:14 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (My body, my choice....but not when it comes down to unconstitutional "vaccine" mandates.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
What about the challenge of hauling 13 times the weight of equivalent jet fuel to high altitude FOR THE ENTIRE DURATION OF THE FLIGHT.
67 posted on 07/27/2022 6:59:56 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: deport
But look what was happening in Europe in 1492...WE were simply a third world country by comparison. It wasn't our time.

But we're talking science here. Why fix something that isn't broken.

68 posted on 07/27/2022 7:00:05 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Red Badger

Shorter flights means multiple stops and changing planes unless you wait hours to recharge the plane. Also, the higher you fly, the colder the air. Cold air reduces the battery charge time and battery life. No thanks.

This will only drive people more to cars and trains. When these planes start falling out of the sky, that’s the end of airlines.


69 posted on 07/27/2022 7:00:09 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Sarcazmo

Yep gotta be watchful of dem birds. They may drop a
load on you. But things change as new developments
become adaptable to every day life.


70 posted on 07/27/2022 7:00:09 AM PDT by deport
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To: US_MilitaryRules

A small country like Denmark has domestic flights?

Who knew?


71 posted on 07/27/2022 7:01:30 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (My body, my choice....but not when it comes down to unconstitutional "vaccine" mandates.)
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To: Reno89519

Much like everything they do, it is simply a con job to get the sheep to vote away their freedom, liberty, stored wealth, and future labor. There is no climate crisis, there never was. They push a lot of these cons to scare people. This one seems to have stuck enough that they are going for it.

I can think of nothing in the world more valuable than human labor... and they want it for themselves. The concept of America is that labor is yours, among other things. I really have a distaste for these crooks.


72 posted on 07/27/2022 7:03:10 AM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: deport

In a free market system things change on their own usually for the better and at the right time.

This is not that. As we will see.


73 posted on 07/27/2022 7:06:19 AM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: Red Badger

19 seats? 100 seats? 800 mile flights? Will you have to land and re-charge twice while flying between New York and Los Angeles? All because of the lie called “climate change?”

No thanks. United will be known as Air Crash Airways.


74 posted on 07/27/2022 7:06:29 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (My body, my choice....but not when it comes down to unconstitutional "vaccine" mandates.)
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To: Red Badger

Practical ones that can carry heavy payloads long distances safely and reliably?

No. Get real.


75 posted on 07/27/2022 7:08:46 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Red Badger
If you're going to run a con, go big. Real big.

Let politicians fly in electric planes. Add Al Gore too. Make them self-driving and restrict their flights to avoid victims on the ground.

76 posted on 07/27/2022 7:08:58 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Red Badger

Falling on a house near you soon...


77 posted on 07/27/2022 7:09:38 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

None of it makes sense. Stop making sense. Making sense is violence.


78 posted on 07/27/2022 7:10:18 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: Sarcazmo

Right time is the key.

On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers launched the era of
human flight when they successfully tested a flying vehicle that
took off by its own power, flew naturally at even speeds, and
descended without damage.

Don’t discount what the future may hold for others after we are gone.


79 posted on 07/27/2022 7:12:00 AM PDT by deport
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To: Red Badger

Think smaller planes, shorter flights fly LA to NY in just three days.


80 posted on 07/27/2022 7:12:29 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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