Yep. Somethings are interesting....
Posted on 11/07/2023 9:37:56 AM PST by aculeus
How a small plane’s 16-day trip from Vermont to Florida might foreshadow a new era of battery-powered air travel long considered implausible.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Yep. Somethings are interesting....
They have finally accepted the fact that the “Peak Oil” scam/scare they have been trying to run on us for years hasn’t worked.
So they are pushing their fake “Climate Change” scam in its place.
They can get back to us with an update on their electric airliners when a fully loaded electric powered Airbus A380 completes its first transoceanic flight.
I have several hand planes and two electric powered planes. All are great woodworking tools.
“Aviation Week keeps touting electric airplanes”
So now we need to add “Aviation Week” to the long list of once respected publications that have been hijacked by leftist propagandists.
I’M SHOCKED! SHOCKED I TELL YA’! but I do wonder what happens on a rainy, cloudy day. or week. a 16 day journey becomes slower than a westbound wagon train. and just as many deaths I fear.
...And make sure your plane is made of balsa wood...
...and watch your step getting in...
I’ve already applied for a government grant to solve that little problem. My solution is to build huge Tesla coils all along the plane’s route. As the plane flies over them, the Tesla coils will charge the plane’s batteries.
This won’t work, of course. But by the time the idiots in DC realize that, I will have cashed my grant checks, sent 10% to the Biden family, and then faded into obscurity.
Probably sitting on a charger.
Where are these idiots going to get all the electricity from? There are 8 million new foreign xenoidiots charging their cellphones since Biden rose to power.
What this idiot doesn’t seem to realize is that there’s already been an all-electric, solar-powered airplane that circumnavigated the planet — flying 25,000 miles — in 2018.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/inside-first-solar-powered-flight-around-world-180968000/
Electric motors make perfect sense in propeller-driven airplanes because big propellers are more efficient than small propellers. But you need LOTS of torque (not horsepower) to spin a big blade with LOTS of pitch (so tip speed remains clear of the speed of sound), and that’s where electric motors shine, because they make maximum torque at ANY AND ALL RPMs.
What DOESN’T make sense is electric storage batteries. Better off with something like hydrogen fuel cells. If they were spending just a fraction of the money they’ve blown on exotic electric storage batteries to develop better HFCs, we’d already have HFC-powered transportation ready for the mass market.
About 78 miles a day for 16 days. You couldn’t walk it, but maybe bike or electric bike?
Where do you get all the electricity?
What happens when they get caught in an extended holding pattern?
I punched Concord, Vermont to Jacksonville, Florida into my map app and clicked on walking directions and it said directions weren’t available, so you obviously can’t walk there. So a 16 day flight it is.
Pass...
Imagine sitting in a plane and having a spontaneous electrical explosion. No thanks.
I think that Wench has already been used.
Where do you get all the electricity?
That would depend on whether you are a democrat or a realist.
A long time ago, when the Earth was green,
There was more kinds of animals than you've ever seen.
And they ran about and played while the Earth was being born,
And the loveliest of all was the unicorn.There was green alligators and long-necked geese,
Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees.
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born,
You're never gonna' see no unicorn.
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