"So dire it can be seen from space." Give it a rest. License plates can be read from space since like the 70s.

There are all sorts of global oscillations in the oceans and atmosphere that are poorly understood. Tying specific weather events to these oscillations is speculation, not science.

More proof that anything you keep in the cloud can disappear into the mists.

They did not throw him out on his ear. They first defended him, then said they would look into it.

I suggested this over 20 years ago, and my company did not think it was patentable.

The altitude is limited by the energy contained in the batteries, since most of the energy is undoubtedly expended getting up there. Cruising altitude of prop passenger planes in the past was about 20,000 feet. That would require at least 20x the battery energy that it took to get to 1100 feet, and possibly more due to thinner air and the tradeoff between drag and prop effectiveness.

Why doesn't NY apply its gambling laws to Wall Street?

Who appointed her God... mother?

Best I can tell is they don't give two shits what any of us think.

If they just gave the money to the veterans instead of the investigators, I bet that would work a lot better.

Electricity is not priced in kilowatts. However if we assume that they are talking about commercial electric rates, the avg for US is about $0.14/kWh. So $5 worth is about 35kWh. Since the flight lasted 27 minutes, if it were consuming 1MW the whole time, that would be a total of (27/60)*1MW = 0.45MWh = 450 kWh, which would cost 450*$0.14 = $63. So, we can infer that the flight was not at 1MW the whole time, and since the energy used was 35kWh, the average over 27 minutes was only a little less than 1kW. But 1MW sounds like a lot, huh.

Peak altitude was 1100 feet AGL. Maybe it can be used for crop dusting.

The press release just says the batteries provided 1MW. Doesn't say whether it was sustained or peak. Can assume peak.

If it's the world's largest 106 foot electric plane, how many other 106 foot electric planes did it beat out? And why does a plane need feet?

Blocking and reporting are also a waste of your time. The phone numbers they use are randomly generated, so blocking them does nothing. Reporting them also does nothing, because the phone company is not going to look through logs for you.