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Re:Electrified wingsuit from BMW reaches 186MPH on first flight by JohnJamesRambo on Sunday November 15, 2020 @01:07PM (#25103282)
>after another few decades of battery chemistry improvement

How do you know we aren't near the end of what is possible with batteries already? I assume that people in the steam and internal combustion era thought things would just keep improving forever as well.

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Re:Electrified wingsuit from BMW reaches 186MPH on first flight by gorbypark on Sunday November 15, 2020 @01:12PM (#25103324)
I don’t have any experience with Steam engines, but IC engines have made huge improvements in efficiency in the last 10 years or so.
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Re:Electrified wingsuit from BMW reaches 186MPH on first flight by lovemenot on Sunday November 15, 2020 @06:17PM (#25105921)
>> I assume that people in the steam and internal combustion era thought things would just keep improving forever

Maybe at the beginning of steam, but as early as 1824 Carnot had put a theoretical limit on it.

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Re:Electrified wingsuit from BMW reaches 186MPH on first flight by Robotbeat on Sunday November 15, 2020 @01:19PM (#25103371)
Because of where we are in the lab for better chemistries.
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Re:Electrified wingsuit from BMW reaches 186MPH on first flight by JohnJamesRambo on Sunday November 15, 2020 @07:21PM (#25106427)
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2kmz7d/lii...

This only goes to 2005 and is plateauing at 200. I checked and a Tesla is 250-260 or so. Seems rapid growth is definitely over and we are at the asymptote.

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