NASA’s incredible new solid-state battery pushes the boundaries of energy storage: ‘This could revolutionize air travel’::“We’re starting to approach this new frontier of battery research."

  • Cam@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Powering a plane with a battery sounds like a bad idea. Almost worst than EVs.

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      1 year ago

      Oh yeah, way worse than filling planes with thousands of gallons of extremely flammable jet fuel

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          1 year ago

          No, it’s not. Jet fuel does not have lead

          Small propeller planes use leaded fuel

          Actually , one of the proposed solutions to leaded fuel in propeller planes was to see if you could modify the engines to use jet fuel

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      1 year ago

      Did you read the article? Solid state batteries are much safer than lithium ion batteries when damaged, so the risk of fire is quite different.

      The only other reason it’s a “bad idea” is energy density, and the article is reporting advancements there. Really, just read the article next time.