Solarpunk Travel

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Community for those focused on sustainable travel. Our society's current levels of energy intensive and frequent travel are not compatible with life on a finite planet. We advocate for long-term slow travel to see the world, and low energy local travel to deeply experience your community. Green washing free zone.

related to sustainable travel:

[email protected] ← open to all train chatter (but note the instance is centered on the midwest USA)
[email protected] ← UK Rail and Trains
[email protected] ← UK public transport

related to travel generally:

[email protected] ← general travel
[email protected] ← general travel (this whole instance devoted to travel but note there is an instance-wide no politics rule there)
[email protected] ← Europe focus

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Battery powered flights from Washington DC to LA. No longer a pipe dream? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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That kind of plane could very much fly trans Atlantic with stop overs in Iceland or Greenland or further south from Kap Verde or Guinea to Brazil.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, you can't take a battery powered flight anywhere, so yes, still a pipedream.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

There are a number of battery electric planes, which are flying. Some are used to train pilots. So that part works. The issue is that battery energy density was too low, for them to become practical for passenger flights. That seems to change. There are number of smaller passenger battery planes in the work, for shorter fligths to islands and the like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Hopefully using this for transcontinent flight will be the one use. Since we should be able to build electric high speed rail everywhere that we travel over land.