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This will never happen. What will inevitably be what happens is that battery systems will be charged at airports and be in some standard format that can be swa
by incomingpain 5y ago
This will never happen.
What will inevitably be what happens is that battery systems will be charged at airports and be in some standard format that can be swapped not unlike the lifts that do food or luggage.
- clouddrover 5y agoHydrogen plane: https://newatlas.com/aircraft/hydrogen-electric-hy4-passenger-aircraft-sets-altitude-record/ https://newatlas.com/aircraft/hydrogen-electric-hy4-passenge... Another one: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210401-the-worlds-first-commercial-hydrogen-plane https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210401-the-worlds-first... And this one was built in 1988: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-155 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-155
- incomingpain 5y agoYou didn't really explain your position, if I am getting you right, you're saying that there have been a few 1 offs and after they built them to realized how terrible they are and never built a second one? I also find it hilarious that 7,000ft is an achievement. Meanwhile, electric planes have literally went around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse
- clouddrover 5y agoThe point is we've gone from your "will never happen" to "is happening" and "will continue to happen". Hydrogen fuel cell aircraft will be doing commercial passenger flights in a couple of years. How soon do you think solar aircraft will be doing commercial passenger flights?
- incomingpain 5y ago>The point is we've gone from your "will never happen" to "is happening" and "will continue to happen". Hydrogen fuel cell aircraft will be doing commercial passenger flights in a couple of years. So you disproved your own argument and are only arguing over semantics?
- clouddrover 5y agoNo.