Electric

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electric

Title text: Really though, it's a cool emerging field! Go to google!

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Have you read about electric aviation? It sounds really cool. Aviation is a huge part of greenhouse gas emissions.

The amount of r&d needed to get an all-electric 737 is enormous. We don't have batteries with enough energy density, and even if we did, they'd be dangerous.

Never gonna work.

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If you could beam power, you could launch with almost no batteries, drastically lowering fuel costs.

It would necessitate a global network of power-beaming mega-blimps.

And we must have it, no matter the cost.

That seems unlikely.

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We can use the laser-blimps to kill people who say that laser-blimps are inefficient.

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