Originally Posted by
Bergerie1
A great start for electric power, but surely simple physics limits what can be achieved unless someone invents an entirely new kind of battery.
It has just dawned on me that only short flights are possible on electric power, now and for the foreseeable (because physics), but that these flights are the most vulnerable to concerns about climate change.
As I live in New Zealand, I am not well-disposed to "flight-shaming" (I'd love to be able to catch a train to Sydney), but sight-seeing flights, and short commuter flights when ground alternatives are available, are the sort of elective activities that we might all cut down on. So, climate neutral gives the joy-flight industry a great selling point.