• betanumerus@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    They ignore others (electric truck engineers) while saying they know more (than electric truck engineers).

    To be fair, 10 years ago, I didn’t think we’d have electric aircrafts, but we do. Not all trips are half-way around the globe and none of them need loud engine noise.

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      13 days ago

      Yeah well those planes are no where near being able to replace the current planes…

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        13 days ago

        They won’t, but they make short flights viable.

        Way less maintenance, “fuel” cost is a rounding error. But only good for 100-200km flights with maybe half dozen passengers

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          For most of those trips a train connection would be better. Hell even a bus connection works…

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            12 days ago

            Check how much 200-300km of railroad costs vs a simple airstrip.

            The target isn’t a massive million person metropolis, but a mid-sized city with manufacturing.

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              11 days ago

              Well m, in my country we used to have loads of railroads everywhere connecting those smaller cities and villages but in thats the case anymore. Again I doubt we would want every small 10k cities to have their own airstrip and those cities are always connected with roads, so buses.

              Not sure why you mention manufacturing, do you mean that the production would be transported by planes?

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                11 days ago

                Factories usually have expensive people coming in to install and maintain the equipment, as well as visitors from customer companies.

                Source: lived in a factory town all my youth, family still does

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        11 days ago

        Which planes are you talking about? You talk like you can’t tell apart a glider from A380.

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          11 days ago

          I dont think when we say planes we mean the small ones. I’m talking about the one’s that are used for passenger air travel. At least where I am from that means planes that have at least fourty seats and not four.