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Jet engines are not 100% efficient. Electric motors can be pretty close, 98% is realistic. Of course other parts of the system will lose energy, like conversio
by vardump 8mo ago
Jet engines are not 100% efficient.
Electric motors can be pretty close, 98% is realistic. Of course other parts of the system will lose energy, like conversion losses.
Of course that doesn't mean batteries are currently a viable replacement. One should still take efficiency into account in quick back of the envelope calculations.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8mo agoHalve it to 0.11G then. It makes no difference, we’d still need gigawatt scale electricity production, with some multiple of that at peak, just for a fairly unremarkable airport.