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The Guardian is reporting;
The world's first fully electric commercial aircraft has taken its inaugural test flight, taking off from the Canadian city of Vancouver and flying for 15 minutes.
"This proves that commercial aviation in all-electric form can work," said Roei Ganzarski, chief executive of Australian engineering firm magniX.
The company designed the plane's motor and worked in partnership with Harbour Air, which ferries half a million passengers a year between Vancouver, Whistler ski resort and nearby islands and coastal communities.
The recycled 62-year-old de Havilland Beaver seaplane is designed for short hops of 160 km or less, which represents the majority of Harbour Air flights. They're looking to save millions on costly maintenance and downtime. Harbour Air hopes to convert most of their airplanes after certification.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Shire on Thursday December 12 2019, @07:12PM (6 children)
Not as finite as you might think. New oil/gas fields are being discovered that could supply demand for the next century. This is why the US has now become a net exporter of fossil fuels. If you sent demand skyrocketing it would just make even more oil fields economical to develop.
Just this past month Iran announced discovery of a new oil field thought to contain 53 billion barrels. And Japan recently discovered an offshore oil field containing another 50 billion barrels.
I'm afraid there is plenty of oil to go around for the foreseeable future, regardless of demand.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday December 12 2019, @07:51PM (4 children)
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(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Thursday December 12 2019, @10:38PM (3 children)
Burn those hydrocarbons and condense the water. (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday December 13 2019, @02:09AM (2 children)
Yielding water and CO2. Think we could make it into soda water? Really fizzy stuff? To put into the cans involved in another discussion on this site?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday December 13 2019, @02:35AM (1 child)
Depending on the initial composition, you may end with a strongly carbonated soft drink (if you burn methane), or a liquefied carbon dioxide with traces of water (e.g. if you burn Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene [wikipedia.org]).
Just don't try to burn graphene or buckyballs, you'll die of dehydration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday December 14 2019, @10:46PM
As I said, really fizzy stuff.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 13 2019, @08:33AM
One thing to keep in mind about these numbers is that they sound enormous from our perspective. They are not. Currently the worldwide consumption of oil is about 100 million barrels per day. [wikipedia.org] That's trending upwards and as India/China/Africa economically develop it's going to skyrocket upwards. So 50 billion barrels of oil is enough to supply the Earth for less than 1.4 years. And that is, again, at current levels - which are only going to increase. Another reason that increasing demand is paradoxically the best way to kill fossil fuels.