• da_cow (she/her)@feddit.org
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        3 hours ago

        Assuming that flying with an electric motor is a viable option (I have zero clue, but from what I heard currently its not that realistic that we will get electric planes)

        • BillBurBaggins@lemmy.world
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          1 hour ago

          Small electric planes already exist. But yeah not passenger planes or to go any useful distance for the foreseeable future

        • Nalivai@lemmy.world
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          2 hours ago

          The main weight in an electric plane is a battery, and the energy density in that isn’t good enough yet, and it’s possible that it can’t be better with the current batteries we have, and we need a battery on a different set of elements