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TheFunPolice Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9009 waggawagga Gender:	10% cheaper doesn't sound good enough to me! Sep 27^th, 2017 at 9:17pm Wright Electric is working with several airlines around the world, and claims that electric planes will be 50% quieter and 10% cheaper for airlines to buy and operate, with the cost saving potentially passed on to passengers. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/27/easyjet-electric-planes-wright-...
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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16422 Gender:	Re: 10% cheaper doesn't sound good enough to me! Reply #1 - Sep 27^th, 2017 at 9:21pm Hate to a battery crash mid-flight.
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Reply #2 - Sep 27^th, 2017 at 10:52pm

High above the clear waters of Lake Tahoe, an Electrojet Powerliner makes its quiet way towards LA..... powered by batteries, the airliner is quiet and comfortable.......

Anyway - what if the mechanic forgot to tighten the battery connection? Hang on - the manual says 'charge for twenty four hours every five days'.... not charge for five hours every twenty four days'.. somebody call the pilots NOW.....

"Waddya mean it's too late? He can't make a deadstick landing on Lake Tahoe? Jeez, some guy did it with a 767 at Gimly..... you what? You're worried the batteries might short out in a water landing? Sully didn't have that problem.... Well - can't he make it to an airfield? Area 51? OK.. get him down! they won't know the difference anyway....."

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FraudulentAFL Full Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 175 Gender:	Re: 10% cheaper doesn't sound good enough to me! Reply #3 - Sep 28^th, 2017 at 3:42pm I don't know if I quite believe this electric aircraft stuff either given that this greedy world didn't bother developing the battery for the lions share of the 21st century! Jevons Paradox made the complex and that aint gonna change on a dime. Now that's realpolitik!!
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juliar Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 22966	Re: 10% cheaper doesn't sound good enough to me! Reply #4 - Sep 28^th, 2017 at 3:57pm What a shame, Futility in search of Failure's Fake News banished to the backroom.
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FraudulentAFL Full Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 175 Gender:	Re: 10% cheaper doesn't sound good enough to me! Reply #5 - Sep 28^th, 2017 at 5:01pm juliar wrote on Sep 28^th, 2017 at 3:57pm: What a shame, Futility in search of Failure's Fake News banished to the backroom. Juliar can't live without me!
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juliar Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 22966	Re: 10% cheaper doesn't sound good enough to me! Reply #6 - Sep 29^th, 2017 at 12:26am FreddyFrog is trying to steal Futility in search of Failure's moment in the sun.
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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16422 Gender:	Re: 10% cheaper doesn't sound good enough to me! Reply #7 - Sep 29^th, 2017 at 12:59pm Bugger at 342 miles the plane won't make it from Perth to Kalgoorlie.
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TheFunPolice Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9009 waggawagga Gender:	Re: 10% cheaper doesn't sound good enough to me! Reply #8 - Oct 1^st, 2017 at 12:51pm lee wrote on Sep 29^th, 2017 at 12:59pm: Bugger at 342 miles the plane won't make it from Perth to Kalgoorlie. Australia ain't the centre of everyone's universe!
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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16422 Gender:	Re: 10% cheaper doesn't sound good enough to me! Reply #9 - Oct 1^st, 2017 at 2:08pm TheFunPolice wrote on Oct 1^st, 2017 at 12:51pm: Australia ain't the centre of everyone's universe! Thanks for pointing that out. So it has limited utility. Edit: Out of that 335 miles, how much is in reserve for flying to other airports because of weather conditions changing during flight?
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Reply #10 - Oct 3^rd, 2017 at 1:57pm

lee wrote on Oct 1^st, 2017 at 2:08pm:

TheFunPolice wrote on Oct 1^st, 2017 at 12:51pm:

Australia ain't the centre of everyone's universe!

Thanks for pointing that out. Wink

So it has limited utility. Grin

Edit: Out of that 335 miles, how much is in reserve for flying to other airports because of weather conditions changing during flight?

All good questions!

The better one is "Why does decadent man believe he should be able to throw his children's future in the garbage bin via fossil fuels when they aren't needed?"

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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16422 Gender:	Re: 10% cheaper doesn't sound good enough to me! Reply #11 - Oct 3^rd, 2017 at 3:40pm TheFunPolice wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2017 at 1:57pm: The better one is "Why does decadent man believe he should be able to throw his children's future in the garbage bin via fossil fuels when they aren't needed?" Yes. We only need battery powered cargo ships.
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Reply #12 - Oct 5^th, 2017 at 3:03pm

lee wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2017 at 3:40pm:

TheFunPolice wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2017 at 1:57pm:

The better one is "Why does decadent man believe he should be able to throw his children's future in the garbage bin via fossil fuels when they aren't needed?"

Yes. We only need battery powered cargo ships.

Quantitative argument is what business needs!

Limits, remember buddy Wink

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lee Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 16422 Gender:	Re: 10% cheaper doesn't sound good enough to me! Reply #13 - Oct 5^th, 2017 at 4:33pm FraudulentAFL wrote on Oct 5^th, 2017 at 3:03pm: Limits, remember buddy Yeah. Limits to lithium for starters.
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TheFunPolice Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9009 waggawagga Gender:	Re: 10% cheaper doesn't sound good enough to me! Reply #14 - Oct 9^th, 2017 at 2:30pm lee wrote on Oct 5^th, 2017 at 4:33pm: FraudulentAFL wrote on Oct 5^th, 2017 at 3:03pm: Limits, remember buddy Yeah. Limits to lithium for starters. Limits to blood for oil wars! ...or is there too much of the complex depending on them?
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