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For aviation there is the added advantage with fossil fuel that you burn it as you go. A battery stays the same weight. A 747 can burn 400 tons of fuel on a lon
by missedthecue 2y ago
For aviation there is the added advantage with fossil fuel that you burn it as you go. A battery stays the same weight. A 747 can burn 400 tons of fuel on a long haul flight. That makes the plane a lot lighter increasing range meaningfully.
- downrightmike 2y agoTrains are better unless you need to cross an ocean
- Two4 2y agoIt depends by which metric you mean "better". For a collection of executives that cost in the order of six figures an hour, it makes sense to put them on a plane and get them there as quickly as possible, even if it sometimes means chartering a jet. Is this stupidly polluting? Of course. Does this figure into the incentives? Not really. Could it figure into the incentives if clean fuel was available? Plausibly.