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The Future of Civilization
The amount of the weight of batteries needed to get an electric aircraft off the ground is just like a commercial airliner, not doable. There's really there's no way, even going completely nuclear, which there doesn't seem to be much. Oil and gas is used for other things throughout the economy. It solves the end. Some of the energy problem, it gets clean water because we've got desalination plants. We can plant our houses and factories, maybe power our cars. But planes probably won't fly. Energy density of battery relative to what it lifts are miles and miles away.