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The Electrification of Everything: From Sky to Sea

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The Future of Air Travel

In the near future you're going to be able to take a 10-minute trip to your nearest airport get on an airplane and fly for an hour. This type of connectivity will disproportionately benefit small rural communities that previously have not had the benefit of having air travel. These flights will be much more cost effective than the flights we have today because they eliminate aviation fuel and replace it with electrically derived energy from the grid as with those other forms of transportation electric aviation is very quiet. You'll be able to do it not worrying about polluting the environment but also not worrying about irritating your neighbors because the flights will be so quiet that nobody will complain. i'm just picturing this like summer day

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