Electric aircraft: you couldn't make it up
The spoof (from last month’s BOM) |
The reality: EADS E-Fan (source) |
Turns out it wasn’t a joke, after all. There really is a potentially commercial electric plane being developed – and it’s not the first to fly. Though short-flight, it recharges quickly (about an hour) and fuel costs are allegedly one-third that of conventional flying.
I’m not sure how that cost claim stands up in the accounting – the electricity is generated elsewhere and ultimately implies a vast web of economic activity, so it would be an interesting challenge to compare the work achieved/costs of conventional and electric air transport in purely energy terms, say along EREOI lines.
But there could also be an exercise on relative disbenefits – noise and air pollution (including the high-altitude water vapour that I think has some effect on weather and climate) – and the economic costs of same. (Electric might spike the guns of the chemtrail conspiracy people.)
Here’s the video of this new creation:
Cheaper than windmill-powered?
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