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The bottom line is, the batteries that you would need do not exist yet. You just have faith that your extrapolation holds true. I cannot comment on that either
by goethes_kind 3y ago
The bottom line is, the batteries that you would need do not exist yet. You just have faith that your extrapolation holds true. I cannot comment on that either way, because there is no way to tell when battery energy densities will stop improving.
Synthetic kerosene is a technology that we have today and imho the most likely option because it is plug and play. Otherwise one would have to work out many modifications to fly directly on hydrogen, but that is also technically possible today, if one wanted to do it that way.
- _aavaa_ 3y agoThere is no way to know when it stops, but looking at the historical trend it isn’t slowly down yet. The technology for synthetic karosene is something we have today, expect it cost more 10x regular karosene and: A) what’s the path to scale to bring that number down? Who isn’t going to pay that 10x price while it’s that high. Batteries had cell phones, then laptop, then cars and storage. Now it’s trucks, ships and planes are next up. B) by continuing with combustions engines you keep the same operating costs that you have now. Whereas electrification gets rid of many of them (same way it did for cars).