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Originally Posted by Boreas
I don't see a significant difference between the weight of conventional fossil fuel engines and the powerful electric motors a PV LTA (don't you love acronyms?) would need. No weight of fuel to consider, of course, but there are batteries to consider. Need a lot of those to fly through the night.
Then there's the amount of generation required for charging all those batteries versus the amount required on-demand for propulsion. These things have been dealt with on manned and unmanned solar-powered HTA aircraft but, at least at present, these things are very, very slow.
John
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+1.
Dave
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