I’m all for researching electric vehicles, including aircraft, but we don’t hear much about the climate and environmental costs associated with green energy… solar panels, wind farms, batteries (mining, producing, and disposal). Nothing is free. We also can’t control the carbon emissions of India, China, and/or Russia and I don’t think we can do this alone.
California is a stellar example of action prior to thought… let’s legislate a ban on gasoline powered vehicles and a short time later, ask citizens to refrain from charging their electric cars. Wow…
Go talk to a farmer about the feasibility of electric combines. Are we going to starve ourselves for the sake of reducing carbon emissions? That would certainly solve the “people” problem associated with carbon emissions.
As a CFI, I am not interested in a training aircraft with a 1 hour limit (maybe) for engine runtime. We need a breakthrough in battery technology (environmental concerns aside) and I don’t see anything looming on the horizon.
Too much topic and too little time and energy.