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Commercial airlines have a future? In the near future, only the wealthiest people will be able to fly, and good luck denying them windows. As for everyone else,
by jacobwilliamroy 6y ago
Commercial airlines have a future? In the near future, only the wealthiest people will be able to fly, and good luck denying them windows. As for everyone else, Im thinking theyre taking the windows out because they are planning to convert over to cargo flights or something.
- romski 6y agoYou can fly right now if you want to - flights are very cheap! What point are you trying to make?
- jacobwilliamroy 6y agoYou can buy a cheap ticket on an empty plane. Do the math. This is a passing thing, and airlines are either going to raise prices or go out of business.
- Kliment 6y agoYou can buy a cheap ticket on an empty flight that then gets cancelled.
- smabie 6y agoWhy do you think that?
- jacobwilliamroy 6y agoBecause COVID has completely rejiggered the economy. Airlines legally are not allowed to pack hundreds of people into a cramped cabin. They're selling fewer tickets at lower prices, and they were already losing money on poor passengers to begin with. Plus, the oil crash is still coming. Fracking has delayed it for a short time, and the covid lockdowns also have slowed consumption, but it is still inevitable. Before fracking, the U.S. army expected peak oil to happen sometime around 2015. Keep in mind, fracking is less efficient than old methods of oil extraction, and produces fewer barrels for the same amount of energy, and the energy for that extraction process comes from... oil. So we're burning the house down from both ends. Airlines don't stand a chance, in their current form.
- sirk1882 6y agoWhich is why companies like this are going to be doing what Musk is doing with Electric vehicles. Now, if they could make these for 2000-3000km flights and they ran on 250kWh to 350kWh electric they'd be what the future entails. Especially if they weren't piloted and were fully automated.
- jacobwilliamroy 6y agoDid you hear what I said about COVID? Also your imaginary battery that doesn't exist, is imaginary, and doesn't exist. Unless you want to fly around on a nuke. And can we stop giving elon musk credit for everything? Tesla employs 48,000 people and contracts god only knows how many. It's pretty clear that elon musk is stealing credit for everyone's work, and Im sure the rest of the company physically cringes whenever people say stuff like "Elon is doing great stuff with batteries"
- sirk1882 6y agoEh, kleenex, scotties, brand name recognition is a trite point. And when it comes to EV batteries, Tesla is leading the field. 21700 batteries are a smart improvement over 18650 cells. And I'll happily give the engineers at Tesla credit. However, realistically speaking they should be branching out and applying the same technology elsewhere. Especially in regard to hybrid vehicles. It's not an either/or situation. We can eat our cake and drive it halfway too.
- ppf 6y agoRemoving your energy source (fossil fuel) and replacing with energy storage doesn't fix anything - where does the energy to fill that storage come from? In some hypothetical future where renewable energy is very cheap, it will still be more efficient to use that energy to produce liquid fuel for planes.
- sirk1882 6y agoITER. Tritium breeding reactors by feeding it recycled lithium.