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Re:Feds give Google OK to test Project Wing drone deliveries by maxerickson on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @11:42AM (#12218743)
$0.50 buys an awful lot of electricity. I would expect other costs to be a bigger deal than energy.

These drones have minutes of flight time carrying kgs of weight with Watt-hours of energy consumption:

http://www.dronesglobe.com/guide/heavy-lift-drones/

As a sanity check, Googling on drone electricity costs has other people saying pennies per delivery.

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Re:Feds give Google OK to test Project Wing drone deliveries by IanCal on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @02:43PM (#12220381)
> As a sanity check, Googling on drone electricity costs has other people saying pennies per delivery.

This makes sense, even assuming half an hour in the air for each delivery, the cost of residential electricity in the UK would mean ~5p of electricity for a 1KW drone making a delivery.

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