The climate case for flying cars
Zero: The Climate Race
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The Challenges and Opportunities of Battery-Powered Flight
Batteries are going at a very slow pace right. If you went back 150 years batteries are improving at the rate of 2% per year and2% per year improvement is basically how much energy can the battery store per kilogram of material used to make that battery? So I think if you can enable battery powered flight at the same weight I think it would be the most energy efficient solution assuming that you could make this magic battery that would weigh the same amount as sustainable aviation fuels or jet fuel. Now we're of course far from that so this is the journey I went on when I tried to ask the question is there a pathway from here to making light batteries that would have the kind
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