alt Hacker News> This seems incredibly inefficient. Is there a future for hybrid aircraft, which would feature both traditional turbofans and large batteries for energy storage?
I would assume the extra weight would make it not really worth the added cost and complexity.
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fragmede • last Tuesday at 7:56 PM
Because jet engines are notoriously simple devices to begin with.
Honestly it sounds like the "right" way to do it would be electric ground vehicles pulling the planes into position, as with tugboats in water. Plane never need carry batteries into the sky and saves a literal ton of fuel.