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Drone delivery will never be economically competitive with other sources of transport based on the materials energy balance woes of lithium ion batteries or eve
by kumarski 5y ago
Drone delivery will never be economically competitive with other sources of transport based on the materials energy balance woes of lithium ion batteries or even lithium ion phosphate batteries.
The Lithium LCOE(which is already a perturbed metric) is several times that of other sources of energy which makes the whole economic action moot.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoI also imagine buccaneering teams hunting drones for their batteries and cargo. It will be a poetic justice: after years of mislabelling copyright infringement as 'piracy', Amazon will get a taste of real piracy.
- netjiro 5y agoDelivery drones are constructed for fairly narrow usage scenarios, and will get more specialised with time. For short hops with light loads air drones are already better than traditional solutions if they are allowed to be used as intended. Air drones span orders of magnitude in cargo capacity, speed, distance. Drone ships, drone cars, ... Don't use a hammer to drive a screw.