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New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline (www.jalopnik.com)
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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You overstate your case, several firms are already at various stages. Wright Electric is working on a >500km range passenger craft for easyJet right now. That won't be able to fill every role, but a worthwhile number of them to be sure.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you could link that it would be great. As far as I understand it, a commercial passenger plane (which holds several hundred people) is no where close to being possible. If you are talking about small planes that hold maximum ten-15 people then sure.

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

I just read it from the Wikipedia page. Their site doesn't have a lot of info other than a white paper