Whatever reduces our reliance on fossil fuels and leads to reduced emissions I am down with. I see some people getting confused, this is not about a solely elec

Whatever reduces our reliance on fossil fuels and leads to reduced emissions I am down with. I see some people getting confused, this is not about a solely electric plane. The applications here would be for a hybrid plane that utilises both existing jet engine technology and electric tech. Like a hybrid vehicle, which hopefully leads to reduce fuel costs, greater distances possible to travel in a plane. Imagine if for take off and landing the pilot can fire up the existing jet engines, then whilst cruising fire up the electric engines and wind back the output from the jet engines (leading to a slower burn rate). You would still be using both, but you would have some additional boost from the electric engines. Put some lightweight solar panels on the roof of the plane, charging up the batteries while the plane sits on the tarmac and readies for taxi. Take the output of the existing engines and use it to charge the batteries in flight (like an alternator in a vehicle, but on steroids). Of course, weight is the limiting factor of all of this. I am more thinking out aloud here, when it comes to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, I think anything (even a marginally small improvement) is a great step forward. The future is looking great.