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A spent battery doesn't weight anything if you drop it once it's done; similarly the spent fuel has weight if you have to store the hot gasses after burning. T
by 8note 3y ago
A spent battery doesn't weight anything if you drop it once it's done; similarly the spent fuel has weight if you have to store the hot gasses after burning.
Turning a fossil fuel based plane carbon free has the same weight problem
- otterley 3y agoAre you seriously suggesting that airplanes could just drop batteries weighing tons while flying across the sky?
- barelyauser 3y agoSince this is HN, he probably is. And not only that, he is probably going to select this as his hill to die on. Good luck.
- teeray 3y agoFilled with toxic substances, no less. There’s probably some treaties that would frown upon that.
- FredPret 3y agoIt'd go over as well as a lead... acid battery
- hef19898 3y agoLi-Ion batteries at that! Ibdon't see any reason why regulator wouod object to that. Also, those batteries cost close to nothing, so yeah, just use as consumables...
- lewispollard 3y agoI think the point was that the only reason burned fuel weighs nothing is because we throw out the waste into the atmosphere.