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Re:First all-electric seaplane takes flight in B.C. by SigmundA on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @02:27PM (#21765848)
Utilizing the energy in lightning is hard, the voltage involved are hard to contain without damaging equipment and you can't charge batteries directly from the strike so it must be buffered somewhere.
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Re:First all-electric seaplane takes flight in B.C. by jsjohnst on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @02:58PM (#21766152)
And if you have the ability to buffer tens of gigawatts of power, if even for a fraction of a second, in the air while flying, why bother with batteries?

(Hints of sarcasm, but some truth there too)

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