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Re:Electric Planes Usher in the Second Great Age of Aviation by maxerickson on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @02:02PM (#9963365)
Given your example, I thought you were talking about aircraft, so the diminishing returns in the recent 50 years seemed salient.
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Re:Electric Planes Usher in the Second Great Age of Aviation by melling on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @02:28PM (#9963556)
Nope, we were talking more about the ability to generate electricity for an electric plane, right? Battery technology, or something else that can deliver electricity.

Of course, 50 years from now we'll have commercial scramjets:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet

So, progress will be made on many fronts.

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Re:Electric Planes Usher in the Second Great Age of Aviation by greedo on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @06:52PM (#9972136)
Battery technology isn't progressing at anywhere near the rate of computer technology.
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