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Old 10th May 2013 | 09:45
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Tarq57
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The ideas come across as having an edge of desperation.

On the off-chance you aren't actually a troll, have you even started to consider the energy consumption of drones that would need to be powerful enough to carry battery packs (heavy) at a similar speed to the cruising speed of the airliner?
That's got to cut into efficiency a little.

The idea of using compressed (even liquid) hydrogen as a fuel source has more merit. Not without difficulties, though. It's expensive to produce, and containment of same requires more dense materials than a typical container for kerosine. Nice, clean burning fuel source. But takes a lot of energy - along with the pollution that would entail - to make it.
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