Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Planes of the Future: The End of the Jet Age? | FD Engineering" video.

  1. If you scale this idea you have an electric drone that can fly for maybe an hour and tag more people. What you actually need is a jetliner that can fly for 15 hours straight while transporting 400 people.
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  2. And there is the oil lobby bot. ;-)
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  3. Aviation is a 2% correction to our primary energy needs. Probably a little less than that, actually.
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  4. As soon as we can make radiation resistant humans. Any day now. ;-)
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  5. Solar farms aren't being deployed by political scientists. They are being deployed by large corporate investors who like the guaranteed long term returns.
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  6. They were talking about long range aviation. There is very little hope to electrify that sector anytime soon. We are, at least, a factor of ten away in terms of power density and weight requirements.
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