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Both things are bad. Reducing one doesn’t mean you can’t reduce the other and vice versa. We will need to curtain emissions in all sectors to avoid more warmi
by Mistletoe 4y ago
Both things are bad. Reducing one doesn’t mean you can’t reduce the other and vice versa. We will need to curtain emissions in all sectors to avoid more warming.
Also electric cars are coming but electric passenger and cargo planes are very far away or even impossible due to the physics of battery power density.
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- mcculley 4y agoObviously. What I don’t understand is why those who claim to be concerned are focused on one and ignoring the other, bigger problem. We should be prioritizing efficiency in emissions.
- cmurf 4y agoWhat's "very far away?" Looks like BETA Technologies has a real airplane, ALIA, that'll potentially be certified next year. They're currently building a manufacturing facility to mass produce it. I think what's very far away is autonomous flight. But IMO farther is autonomous automobiles, because as both pilot and driver, aviation has rules, standards, predictability, integration of a wide assortment of vehicles of flight, training, and thus a far better prepared environment for autonomous. The automobile environment is so haphazard humans make way more mistakes driving than flying.
- Mistletoe 4y agoThe cargo and passenger part. No one doubts an electric plane can be made, it’s the ability to lift lots of weight and the batteries. https://www.flightglobal.com/airframers/what-would-it-take-to-power-airliners-with-batteries/145370.article https://www.flightglobal.com/airframers/what-would-it-take-t...