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Re:Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path by chrisseaton on Thursday November 07, 2019 @09:38AM (#21473544)
Apparently they do actually get lighter, but not usefully so.
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Re:Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path by w0utert on Thursday November 07, 2019 @10:57AM (#21474285)
Why is that? I’m not a battery expert but it would seem all that charging a battery does is move electrons in the cells around, no?
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Re:Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path by chrisseaton on Thursday November 07, 2019 @11:03AM (#21474360)
e=mc2 I think - there’s a Tesla forum thread about it, and Quora articles and things if you look. I’m not a physicist.
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Re:Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path by rubatuga on Thursday November 07, 2019 @01:31PM (#21475886)
The mass depletion is less than a milligram...
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Re:Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path by chrisseaton on Thursday November 07, 2019 @01:35PM (#21475918)
Yeah I read the same threads - that’s what I was referring to.
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Re:Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path by im3w1l on Thursday November 07, 2019 @05:30PM (#21477995)
Chemical bonds have (often negative) mass. A chemical reaction will break and/or form bonds. Thus it slightly changes the mass. In a battery there will be chemical reactions happening at the anode and cathode. One reaction produces electrons and another absorbs them.
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Re:Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path by ShorsHammer on Thursday November 07, 2019 @07:36PM (#21479012)
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34421/does-the-m...
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