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Deceptichum@quokk.auM to World News@quokk.auEnglish ·
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US Air Force to spend $1.5 billion retro-fitting gifted Qatari plane for Trump use.

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US Air Force to spend $1.5 billion retro-fitting gifted Qatari plane for Trump use.

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Deceptichum@quokk.auM to World News@quokk.auEnglish ·
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US Air Force to spend $1.5 billion retro-fitting gifted Qatari plane for Trump use
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Retrofitting the 13-year-old plane will require significant security upgrades, communications improvements to prevent spies from listening in and the ability to fend off incoming missiles, experts say.
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    1 day ago

    Can we please stop all planes that use fossil fuels?

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      21 hours ago

      i wish, batteries are still too heavy to replace jet fuel, hydrogen could work weight wise, but too low density and you just don’t have space in an airplane (you could design one but it’ll be too big and have too much drag).

      best possibility for now is biofuels. basically plug and play.

      better yet, replace all major overland routes with high speed rail, much cheaper than flying anyways.

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        19 hours ago

        Sail boats work great.

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      18 hours ago

      No.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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      not realistically with our current technology

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        19 hours ago

        Lol we had this tech for centuries

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          We’ve had batteries with better energy density than fossil fuels for centuries?

          Were the Roman’s just sitting on magic batteries but did nothing with them because no one had invented the iPhone yet?

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            Nope. Sails. They work great for moving people and cargo across oceans.

            No fossil fuels required

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              11 hours ago

              Sail boats are a bag of shit

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                8 hours ago

                Sail boats are amazing. Wtf. Have you never been in one?

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                  Yes I have been, they are wildly impractical for real international travel

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                    7 hours ago

                    Apparently you don’t know history.

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          Enjoy your block bot

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