Electric aircraft are coming, and that could help reduce climate change.
Electric planes might seem futuristic, but they aren’t that far off, at least for short hops.
If you tried to fully electrify a 737 with today’s batteries, you would have to take out all the passengers and cargo and fill that space with batteries just to fly for under an hour. I see hybridization as a mid-term option for larger jets, but a near-term solution for regional aircraft. A second option is using synthetic sustainable aviation fuels, which involves capturing carbon from the air or other industrial processes and synthesizing it with hydrogen. But that’s a complex and costly process and does not have a high production scale yet.
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