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Old 23rd Mar 2017, 02:12
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Batteries will only become highly competitive within the aviation field when an inventor or a group of researchers can produce a lightweight version.

Until that time (which I cannot see happening within the next 20 years - but I've been wrong, once), then the sheer, unavoidable heavy weight penalty of batteries will mean that they will be limited to equipment and processes that are strictly ground-based.
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