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Tip 1: Don't display your complete ignorance of a subject in public.
Tip 1a: If you must do so, at least do it politely.
Or in other words, it's people who fly (and sell) sailplanes and light planes who're building the electric & hybrid planes. No doubt some are doing it just for the gee-whiz factor, but there's quite a bit of accumulated experience that thinks it's workable.
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Why are you so bent on not refueling?
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Err... This little thing about CO2, you know? Plus gas prices ($7/gal avgas), the inconvenience, etc.
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You are talking about a couple hours recharge time for your imaginary fleet anyway, sheesh!
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And so? I fly for an hour or two, then it's parked for days.
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Then after 1000 launches you can go buy new batteries for all of them.
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Yeah, just like I had to replace the batteries in the Insight after a couple of years. (That's sarcasm - it's still on the original set, 11 years from new.)