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- Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:52 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Electric powered Dash 8 is coming
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Re: Electric powered Dash 8 is coming
https://www.zeroavia.com Nice. Between fuel cells and straight battery implementations, I imagine these are what most of the electric aircraft attempts will look like for now, which is a similar pattern to the path taken for electric cars. Realistically, electric cars might still be in that early s...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:18 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Electric powered Dash 8 is coming
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6028
Re: Electric powered Dash 8 is coming
As much as I wish that were the current state of the art when it comes to fusion, the truth is we haven't managed to build a fusion reactor that actually produces more energy than it consumes yet, but that's another thing I hope I'll live to see become reality. :smt003 The best candidate on the hori...
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 7:50 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Electric powered Dash 8 is coming
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6028
Re: Electric powered Dash 8 is coming
I think electric vehicles of all kinds are the way of the future. I'd love to see electric aircraft become the norm at some point! That would be an amazing future and I hope I live long enough to see it. I don't know if hydrogen is necessarily the way to go though, but I suppose it might be a good i...
- Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:47 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Electric powered Dash 8 is coming
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6028
Re: Electric powered Dash 8 is coming
Yeah hydrogen isn't a very dense gas, so if you want any kind of usable amount you either need to compress it to a very high degree, or liquify it, which requires some serious cooling. There are technical problems either way.
- Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:57 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: A380 "restaurant" tickets sell out in 30 minutes.
- Replies: 2
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Re: A380 "restaurant" tickets sell out in 30 minutes.
I mean I wouldn't pay 500 bucks, but I might be in the minority that doesn't mind airline food.
- Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:21 am
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Rapid Testing and Travel Ban
- Replies: 14
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Re: Rapid Testing and Travel Ban
That's the insidious thing about COVID and I'm surprised that so many of the official statements don't seem to take this into account.young grasshopper wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 2:39 pm I think what a lot of people are missing, is that many of these tests will not provide an accurate result when symptoms are not presenting.