Just because it’s useful for fossil fuel companies doesn’t mean that it’s a conspiracy from them.
There is a whole litany of reasons why electric flight is not doable, or so hard and unsafe. That is the main reason why we’re still flying carbon fuel airplanes.
It’s gram for gram the most energy dense, easily being dozen(s) of times denser. You need so many batteries to fly a plane that you won’t have (much) space left for passengers
Fuel literally makes the airplane lighter as it burns during flight, making the airplane more efficient. Batteries don’t, so no efficiency there
Itis only half the equation in a fire, where as batteries have everything right there to burn everyone to death, also sort of important.
There are more but these three (well, mostly 1&2) already makes it extremely hard and expensive to do electrical flight, if ever possible at all
For transcontinental flights yes you are correct: fuel powered jets are the way and they will be for a while. However, right now we are the stage where trainer and small passenger planes can run all electric. Its inaugural Canadian flight happened last year in Campbell River, B.C.
For arctic, island and remote areas we have commercially viable technology at this moment to make planes that can take people around, but only if we let it happen.
It will soon scale to a 10-20 passenger flights, and propellers are fine for filling the regional jet niche. Porter Airlines has been doing that already in Canada with fuel-powered 160 person propeller planes, going to electric doesn’t seem too far-fetched in our near future and would be even quieter than their current planes, which would make island residents happier.
Na-ion is still not dense enough for aviation at this moment but if it could with some advanced it would solve much of the combustibility problem.
The conspiracy is about trying to impede on this progress by pretending if at one scale is currently impossible then it will never be possible, rather than trying to tackle it with whatever technologies are available or will become commercially available just over the horizon.
Another factor about a fuel-burning plane getting lighter with flight time: Many airplanes have a heavier takeoff weight than landing weight. Taking off is fairly gentle on the landing gear and wings as the load is transferred fairly gently. Landing can be an event; you may not be able to stop above your max landing weight, or the force of hitting the ground could overload the gear or the wing spars.
Battery powered planes don’t get lighter with time aloft.
Just no.
Just because it’s useful for fossil fuel companies doesn’t mean that it’s a conspiracy from them.
There is a whole litany of reasons why electric flight is not doable, or so hard and unsafe. That is the main reason why we’re still flying carbon fuel airplanes.
It’s gram for gram the most energy dense, easily being dozen(s) of times denser. You need so many batteries to fly a plane that you won’t have (much) space left for passengers
Fuel literally makes the airplane lighter as it burns during flight, making the airplane more efficient. Batteries don’t, so no efficiency there
Itis only half the equation in a fire, where as batteries have everything right there to burn everyone to death, also sort of important.
There are more but these three (well, mostly 1&2) already makes it extremely hard and expensive to do electrical flight, if ever possible at all
For transcontinental flights yes you are correct: fuel powered jets are the way and they will be for a while. However, right now we are the stage where trainer and small passenger planes can run all electric. Its inaugural Canadian flight happened last year in Campbell River, B.C.
For arctic, island and remote areas we have commercially viable technology at this moment to make planes that can take people around, but only if we let it happen.
It will soon scale to a 10-20 passenger flights, and propellers are fine for filling the regional jet niche. Porter Airlines has been doing that already in Canada with fuel-powered 160 person propeller planes, going to electric doesn’t seem too far-fetched in our near future and would be even quieter than their current planes, which would make island residents happier.
Na-ion is still not dense enough for aviation at this moment but if it could with some advanced it would solve much of the combustibility problem.
The conspiracy is about trying to impede on this progress by pretending if at one scale is currently impossible then it will never be possible, rather than trying to tackle it with whatever technologies are available or will become commercially available just over the horizon.
Another factor about a fuel-burning plane getting lighter with flight time: Many airplanes have a heavier takeoff weight than landing weight. Taking off is fairly gentle on the landing gear and wings as the load is transferred fairly gently. Landing can be an event; you may not be able to stop above your max landing weight, or the force of hitting the ground could overload the gear or the wing spars.
Battery powered planes don’t get lighter with time aloft.