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A lot of the proposed efficiency improvements involve new engines, new fuels, or new materials. This is a new design which could stack on top of any of these ot
by nwah1 7y ago
A lot of the proposed efficiency improvements involve new engines, new fuels, or new materials. This is a new design which could stack on top of any of these other improvements. Including a hybrid or electric engine.
- jillesvangurp 7y agoMaybe but the primary driver of this design is the fuel tanks and weight distribution as well as the need for having big heavy jet engines. This thing still takes about 140 tonnes of fuel. That's a lot of money to fly from A to B using a plane that is still a decade+ away. All I'm saying is that 20% cost reductions is not nearly ambitious enough for that type of long term project given the stuff that is already happening today and given the stuff that is likely to happen in the next decade.