The place the electric plane suffers is turnaround. If that plane that has 455 miles of range only carries enough fuel for 100 miles of range then it will be more efficient carrying less weight and get there faster because more of the power will be used for going forward instead of keeping the plane up. When the plane lands it can be refueled ready to make the return trip in about five minutes. You can probably make many more round trips per day with one avgas powered plan than with an electric plane.

And yet people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are ready to take a wrecking ball to the infrastructure of the world's largest economy based on her absolute belief in human induced climate change.

Amen...I still have my 11C, 12C, 48SX and the 15C and 12C apps on my iPhone.

I still use a HP-12C for my job (with a 48SX in the drawer) and keep a 11C by my computer at home. I also have the 12C and 15C apps on my iPhone.

Was the one with the red led numbers? My Dad graduated high school in 1969 and my grandparents bought him one. It took four or six AA batteries IIRC.

It has always aggravated me that corruption by public officials does not carry stiffer penalties. A public official who shapes public policy to benefit a donor has essentially sold something they don't own and personally gained from that sale. Prison time and substantial forfeiture of personal assets should be a minimum.

A Cessna 182 is a four place piston private plane. I used to fly to a local untowered airport for fuel because the price was $1 gal lower than my home airport. I could land, fuel and be wheels up in about 20 minutes.

As much as I would like to do this, I live in Houston and drive with Google maps on at all times. I have lost track of the number of times it has re-routed me around an accident or other congestion delay and saved 45 minutes or more of drive time. It kind of needs my location for that to work.

My favorite are the extended warranty offers for cars I sold years ago.

This is one of the nice things about using an avgas powered plane. You only put enough fuel on board to make your destination plus alternate plus reserve, thereby saving the weight of the unneeded fuel. Less weight = more distance. In a battery powered plane it must carry the equivalent weight penalty of a full fuel load at all times.

Yes.

No. Before coal is burned, it is a mass made up of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, sulfur and other trace elements. Combined with oxygen these elements are rearranged into other molecules like CO2, H2O, SO2, etc. No mass is "lost", it is transformed and energy is released in the reorganization process.

Another major challenge is refueling. When I fly a C182 cross country I can land at a midpoint airport to visit the bathroom and get food and the plane can be refueled by the time I am done. I can be back in the air for the second leg of my trip in very short order. I fail to see how this would be possible in an electric airplane unless battery packs will be replaceable modules that can be swapped out.

By what standard are the Himalayas "worse?" In a universe with constantly fluctuating conditions, who is to say what is "normal" or "correct?" It could be that the current situation has too much snow and ice and the "base" condition is less, in which case we are simply regressing to the norm.

While there is little question that things are changing, "worse" implies a value judgement where no standard of measurement exists.

I think this is all that ever needs to be said about the interaction between government and anybody. Governments exist to control, period. It can be for good or evil, but that is the only reason government exists.

Chernobyl happened 32 years ago and the extent of the damage is directly attributable to the corner cutting prevalent in Soviet design that emphasized cost reductions over safety. For good reason, only the Soviets (no longer a country, btw) used this design. Fukushima was a problem only because the people who live in a country with a known history of tsunamis failed to plan for a tsunami. The reactor shut down exactly as intended, only the fact that the pumps were underground and stopped working when flooded caused it to become an accident. If two weak examples are the extent of your case against nuclear power you need more facts.

Nuclear power has no competition in the production of consistent, carbon free electricity generation at the levels necessary to meet base needs.