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[huntergreen]

Are they gonna stop weekend plane trips too, lmao...

How come commercial jets aren’t forced to comply with EpA standards ? How come United doesn’t have electric jet engines?

 

[Burla]

Dunno, you hear nightmares of EV's in the cold, well jets fly in -50f and colder for hours on end. And the weight, that's another problem I guess, you know how heavy EV batteries are, how heavy will the ones need to be to propell a jet?

 

[grizzstang]

^^^ I would say that is correct.

With current battery tech there is not enough room in a jet to pack in the amount of batteries it would need to fly and then the weight would not allow it to get off the ground.

Cold weather kills the range and jets are required to go from flight to flight to flight with just refueling. Can they plug one in and wait a week or more for it to charge?

What I see happening with the path we are on is jets will be killed off, for the good of the environment of course, and us peons will no longer be allowed to fly. Flying will be reserved for the elite on small private planes.

 

[Burla]

4 days to trickle charge a Tesla.

 

[Burla]

I give you Alice, lmao?

Interesting link on the first electric jet that took an 8 minute flight and maxes out at 2600 pounds. Funny they names it after a traditional white girl from the 50's name, who knows why that was.

 

[huntergreen]

Dunno, you hear nightmares of EV's in the cold, well jets fly in -50f and colder for hours on end. And the weight, that's another problem I guess, you know how heavy EV batteries are, how heavy will the ones need to be to propell a jet?

What you’re saying is battery tech is not there. That’s my point. Electric cars aren’t ready for the masses.

 

[Motoman501]

Last night I spoke with two guys who work at the Nevada Tesla factory. They were even somewhat laughing at how a lot of their battery materials are mined in Canada, shipped to Nevada by diesel trains, then trucked to the plant in diesel trucks. Both of them drive diesel trucks and stated there's no way they'll part with them.

 

[HEMIMANN]

How come commercial jets aren’t forced to comply with EpA standards ? How come United doesn’t have electric jet engines?

Same reason they haven't cracked down on maritime ocean going ships - international waters and many national waters.

I read a while ago some international agency was going after them. They've been burning straight Bunker-C Residual Slop - no exhaust emission treatment. You see the black smoke coming out their pipes. The one and only ocean cruise I went on (Forced Family Function) ship exhaust smelled godawful - worse than coal (yes I've smelled that on S.S. Badger). Was probably inhaling mercury, lead, chlorine, etc. on that windy day at sea.

Jets only burn kerosine - not nearly as dirty.