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Re:London-Paris electric flight 'in decade' by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @12:29PM (#13932260)
Doubly surprising given the fear is expressed in a thread specifically about the 50x energy-density differential between jet fuel and Li-on batteries.
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Re:London-Paris electric flight 'in decade' by fdej on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:36PM (#13932967)
Trivia: there was about as much chemical energy in the fuel of either Boeing 767 that struck the twin towers as the gravitational potential energy released by the towers collapsing.
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