@robloblaw

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Electric VTOL aircraft flying human organs around. Not a Kim Stanley Robinson novel, an actual company building and flying these today. It sounds like the batteries are under 300Wh per kg.

https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-up-with-electric-aviation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Technologies

What's up with electric aviation?

CEO Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies walks us through the details of how to design, build, and operate electric planes — first for relatively short light-cargo flights, but eventually, he says, for all of aviation. I loved this conversation so much.

Volts