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A powerful new battery could give us electric planes that don’t pollute
MIT Technology Review ^
| October 30, 2018
| James Temple
Posted on 11/03/2018 12:15:15 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
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To: Zhang Fei
Check out post 28. It won’t be happening anytime soon.
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posted on
11/03/2018 1:35:55 PM PDT
by
dynoman
(Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
To: traderrob6
No kidding. I don’t think so.
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posted on
11/03/2018 1:36:12 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Zhang Fei
An electric plane?
No thanks.
To: minnesota_bound
LOL
Or at least a sudden drop.....
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posted on
11/03/2018 1:37:22 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Zhang Fei
Better batteries are always good. Mucho better batteries would be a game changer. I hope they can make this work.
45
posted on
11/03/2018 1:38:15 PM PDT
by
sphinx
To: Zhang Fei
Very cool if legit and dependable.
46
posted on
11/03/2018 1:39:33 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: blackdog
21st Century “steampunk” tech, yaknow.
47
posted on
11/03/2018 1:41:30 PM PDT
by
HKMk23
(You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
To: blackdog
What about steam-powered airplanes? Just bring enough wood on the airplane to keep the fires stoked.
Or, everybody in the back could just pedal a bicycle hooked to generators to charge up the batteries.
Fly and exercise at the same time. You have great incentive to keep pedaling. That Los Angeles to Sydney route can be rough, though.
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posted on
11/03/2018 1:41:45 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
All they would need to do is mount a windmill on the airplane to charge the batteries in flight.
Sorry folks I know you wanted to go to LA but we have to fly upwind to stay up so now routing to NYC .
To: dynoman
petro based fuel tank = energy container
electrical battery = energy container
which one is a problem when contained energy is expended?
50
posted on
11/03/2018 1:48:46 PM PDT
by
Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
To: Zhang Fei
.
Bad news!
A higher rate of discharge will male the batteries even more dangerous than they already are.
There is no legitimate basis for this quest in the first place. We have extremely clean air just about everywhere, and an inexhaustible supply of fuels.
Send the enviro-loons straight to hell!
.
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posted on
11/03/2018 1:54:55 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Covenantor
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posted on
11/03/2018 1:55:38 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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Not cool at all!
An incredible waste of rare and valuable resources to avoid using resources that are safer and in abundant supply.
Envirolunacy at its very worst.
.
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posted on
11/03/2018 1:58:40 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: vette6387
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I think it was the Kendig carb that GM bought and buried.
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posted on
11/03/2018 2:00:56 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Zhang Fei
About the only thing feasible, when it comes to batteries, is something along the lines of a Chevrolet Volt, where you use the gasoline you are burning the charge the batteries and use the batteries in the descending part of midflight so hydrocarbons don’t have to be used.
Otherwise, imo, this technology is never going anywhere.
55
posted on
11/03/2018 2:05:20 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
To: Zhang Fei
Thanks.. but NO thanks!
I'll wait 10 years to see how dependable those batteries really are.
To: Jonty30
I don’t envy the test pilot for the first proof of concept flight.
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posted on
11/03/2018 2:20:05 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
To: Jonty30; blackdog; Steely Tom; E. Pluribus Unum; hanamizu; catnipman; roadcat; gigster; sphinx
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posted on
11/03/2018 2:25:48 PM PDT
by
dynoman
(Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
To: dynoman
I’m well aware that batteries cannot, in any form, replace hydrocarbons. I think they can play a bigger role, as technology develops, but they will never be something that planes can rely on solely. It is hydrocarbons forever. :)
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posted on
11/03/2018 2:27:30 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
To: roadcat
I was thinking along similar lines. The big power need is while the plane is still on the ground!
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posted on
11/03/2018 2:28:49 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Don't argue with the keyboard warriors. They know their delusions better than you.)
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