Comments on: One Flight Closer to My Electric Plane Fantasy Coming True

By: electrical circuit test

electrical circuit test — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:15:28 +0000

cool stuff!

By: electrical circuit test

electrical circuit test — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:15:01 +0000

Cool and all, but I dont foresee any pure electric commercial planes for quite some time… perhaps even light years

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By: Edko

Edko — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:06:26 +0000

No. When will you PC morons learn that electric is not good for the environment. Its more wasteful and poluting than gasoline. Get a brain. That crap comming out of the socket doesn’t just show up by magic.

By: Matt Guthmiller

Matt Guthmiller — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:10:52 +0000

I totally agree, and it pisses me off when people say that a big problem with the iPhone is that it lacks a physical keyboard because the people who say that have obviously never typed anything on an iPhone; at least not for more than 10 seconds. Sure it takes a very small bit of getting used to (what keyboard doesn’t?) but it’s the future people; get with the program or get left in the dust with your Newton.

By: Jeff Henderson

Jeff Henderson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:06:03 +0000

I’duno, NASA seems to have been pretty successful at using Hydrogen as a fuel to launch rockets, including the Space Shuttle, for many decades.

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By: steve

steve — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:03:28 +0000

Can I like this comment, or digg it or something?

By: eattrn

eattrn — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:24:45 +0000

If they can make it for about the price of a car then I will take one.

By: Wade

Wade — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:02:18 +0000

I wish Techcrunch would just leave the electric cars and electric planes for another media source to cover. That’s more the domain of Wired magazine or Popular Mechanics (as 2 examples). Stick to the internet stuff. Just my opinion.

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:10:13 +0000

Fire her, fire her, Michael, please , please get rid of her!!! This is so anoying!

I propose a little stat game. Let’s take every TechCrunch author into account. For each one let’s count the percentage of appearances of the word “I” in every article relative to it’s total word count.

If that’s too complicated, hoew many TechCrunch authors start their articles with the word “I”. Not too many but one.

She just has to understand that SHE is not the story. We do not care what SHE does. We want stories of start-ups, for gods sake!!!

Michael, please! Why, why, why!!!

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By: J. Peterson

J. Peterson — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:18:12 +0000

The link says the plane is currently LiPoly batteries, but they are planning on using “Hydrogen Fuel Cells”. It’s sad to see they still believe in the Hydrogen Fairy. Hydrogen has so many problems (generation and storage chief among them) that you really need to question anybody considering it as a fuel source.

By: DaveA

DaveA — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:13:35 +0000

My, Sarah, but isn’t your self-absorption showing!

- I missed a lot of things while I was in Africa
- I fantasize about electric, supersonic planes
- A new iPhone that I still won’t buy
- Did I mention I fly coach?

..all in one paragraph. You certainly seem to see yourself as really, really important.

Hint: Reporting. Isn’t. About. You.

By: Ibod Catooga

Ibod Catooga — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:11:30 +0000

If it doesn’t have a physical keyboard, I’ll throw that sniznizzle right in that trashdizzle.

By: Itman

Itman — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:38:01 +0000

For planes, fuel-cells make much more sense than for cars.

By: Panamajack

Panamajack — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:50:21 +0000

Sarah,

“(cue the Apple fanboy trolls)” = “trolling said Apple fanboy trolls for a response”. Are you trying to be the new Dvorak?

If so, may I make a suggestion? Reduce / cut out your parenthetical musings from your posts. It’s indicative of poor editing, and almost always needlessly distracts the reader from the actual real content of your posts which, were it not for the troll bait, often have something to offer.

Speaking of the iPhone, why hasn’t any physical keyboard lover – such as yourself – investigated to see if a 3rd party is planning to release a external case/slide out keyboard ?

By: rwissmann

rwissmann — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:38:17 +0000

>>There are countries where this issue is already solved, long time.

>um, not really.

Maybe not completly, but even large industrial countries such as my home country, Germany, are already producing double-digit percentages of there (electrical) energy consumption using renewable energies. Plus the efficency and cost increases in the last years have been huge, making “green” electricity more and more affordable on a large scale.

By: swag

swag — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:34:41 +0000

Electric cars = coal-burning cars.

I get you on the iPhone lack of keyboard and the FB URL silliness, but I don’t get the electric plane thing. If you had talked about a means of using the weak nuclear force instead, I’d be interested. But not electromagnetism…

By: James

James — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:33:20 +0000

I still can’t wrap my head around an electric motor being anywhere near as powerful as a jet combustion engine. Nonetheless, this is a great innovation for light planes with low range.

By: David Thomas Garcia

David Thomas Garcia — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:26:25 +0000

Completely agree. I’m 6′6″ with huge hands (I can palm a basketball and swing my arm around). I was sure I wouldn’t be able to easily type with no physical keys. I had a hard enough time on a Blackberry previously. But the iPhone keyboard was not a problem at all. The autocorrect makes it easy to use. The key preview before release also helped to learn to type because I got feedback on where my finger was.

By: Rainer

Rainer — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:09:24 +0000

Apparently it was necessary.

And, it does NEED a keyboard. Besides being on AT&T, that’s my other major issue with the iPhone. Why doesn’t apple realize they can release two or three different styles for the iPhone just like they do with the iPod?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:54:28 +0000

*in 1g of a contemporary battery
of course

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:51:41 +0000

I’m just tired of this SV arrogance, man. Really. Do you know how many times this has been calculated and researched?
It can be done (as I said), but this V’ would produce a 10kHz 100db noise and it’s track would be visible on all radars (that’s why the ‘warriors for the democracy’ never attempted this thing).
There’s NO WAY to do anything usable down this path, just because the amount of energy stored in 1g of jet fuel is 100 times more than the amount stored in any contemporary battery. So, even this ‘flying whistler’ will be possible in around 20 years from now…
Sarah is just… I don’t know what it is with her (besides the SV idiocy), but I’m tired of it.

By: e.phemera

e.phemera — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:40:00 +0000

dunno… imo, her post is so stupid I was kinda hoping someone would serve up a friendly little dope-slap.