Electric Planes?

A battery in a plane makes little sense to me.  If there is one thing that batteries are not good for, and that for moving a plane.  This technology may make the battery closer to the goal of being able to power a plane, but it is still a dumb idea.

It is better to make carbon neutral fuels from nuclear power.  But that is too obvious, so there will be no effort on that method.

This was really a dumb article.  It is sad to see something like this written that is supposedly connected to a high prestige organization like MIT.  I am really worried about our country when stuff like this gets passed off as state of the art, and gets treated as a serious proposal.  We are in a world of poop if this kind of gimmickry isn't reversed.

A powerful new battery could give us electric planes that don’t pollute - via @techreview https://t.co/WYNletmEnr

— Greg Meadows (@BootsandOilBlog) November 3, 2018